Social Networking Hinders Social Skills

social networking not such a good move in society?

this is obviously an opinion but i disprove of face book and myspace and even twitter. people tend to spend their days texting and IMing constantly and avoid actual confrontation and to me it isn’t healthy not to the people you already know but to knew comers, sure meeting new people is great but on a computer just isn’t natural its just not possible to hold together a relationship through these sites, we are humans not messengers we need physical interaction to be fully satisfied as a person. i believe unless you actually meet a person you really don’t have much of a bond with them just an aquintence. if your distant or an adult sure go ahead talk up with people there is nothing wrong with it, im just worried about our youth putting these site in front of real people and hindering real social skills.

I disagree with the answers above because they over-simplify the issues entirely. Social networking has opened a whole new way of interacting with other people. You are all focusing on all the negativity that comes out of this. Here’s a couple good things that come out of social networking:
-You can keep in touch with others easily, so that you don’t lose friendships due to increasing mobility in the world.
-It reduces the amount of time you need to spend with a specific person to determine whether your interests might match up or not.
-Actually, it makes pretty much everything faster when used correctly. Imagine having to actually mail things out to people still…
-It increases the ability for social movements to mobilize for or against issues in society. About the only reason I actually use facebook is to check the events in my area and to plan protests, etc.
-I disagree that people cannot bond through electronic mediums. I have 3 good friends who I met online when I was 13, I’m 24 now, and we all hang out any time we happen to be in each others neighborhoods. Travel is not an impossibility when you’re at an age where you can easily go meet people in person. However, we’d never know that each other existed were it not for social networking.
-The internet creates an imagined community, in which we can meet many people who we would not normally have access to, and it is thus breaking down stereotypes and barriers.
-People who normally would have felt alone because of a stigma are finding support groups that they could not otherwise be a part of and improving their lives.

There’s a lot of bad things that social networking is causing, but you can’t rule out that it is also doing some good. To do so would be far too simplified and is no more educational than collecting all the data that supports your claim and denouncing everything that denies it. Glossing over the aspects you dislike is not sociology.

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