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Social Media Causing Distancing Phenomena?

posted by n1 on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the antisocial dept.

Ethanol-fueled writes:

Social media enables us to be increasingly connected and informed about even the most insignificant minutiae of the lives of everybody in our circles, however, it can also distance us from others:

I think there are a lot of fears of what's happening that we've made interactions with other people too impersonal and a distancing phenomena is taking place.

Psychologist Krystine Batchco, quoted above, explained that how a person interacts with others online is different than face-to-face interactions. But that's all common sense to us, right?

Have you encountered anybody you've seen change negatively over time as a result of social media's effects? There are obvious examples like trolling or bullying, but what about more subtle behavioral changes which gradually spill over into the real world?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by clone141166 on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:28AM

    by clone141166 (59) on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:28AM (#33302)

    Like people actually saying "lol" instead of laughing?

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 19 2014, @02:24PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 19 2014, @02:24PM (#33339) Homepage

    Plenty of hipsters around here actually say "hashtag," using a hand gesture to punctuate it before saying what they're actually hashtagging. As an example, they'll say something like, "hashtag, bacon!"

    Of course, hipsters are scum and should be beaten to death with a ham.

    • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Monday April 21 2014, @02:04PM

      by JeanCroix (573) on Monday April 21 2014, @02:04PM (#33957)
      I use social media to distance myself from hipsters.