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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?

1. "distance" - http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/psychologist-social-media-causing-a-distancing-phenomena-to-take-place/
2. "common sense" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect

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