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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: 2) by khchung on Sunday April 20 2014, @01:12AM

    by khchung (457) on Sunday April 20 2014, @01:12AM (#33502)

    The telephone 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 ___________, quoted above, explained that how a person interacts with others on the phone 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 the telephone'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

    As an exercise for the readers, replace telephone with written letters in the above and see if you can detect any difference.

    Yay, let's all go back to live in caves, as ANY VALUABLE TECHNOLOGY is going to change how people behave, and OMG THAT IS BAD!

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