With the increase of online networking many people isolate themselves from society to remain in their online realm. These networks were created with the intent of bringing people closer together, but sadly defeats that purpose as many of the younger generations use it as their main source form of communication, while minimizing their real world relationships. In the article a “Social Media Causing A ‘Distancing Phenomena’ To Take Place”, psychology professor Krystine Batcho mention the negative impact online networking has on people as she states “The greater fear of what’s perhaps taking place is that kids are not learning how to behave in a face-to-face conversation”(1) and “What you do you in cyberspace is quite different from what you do face-to-face and kids may be losing those important social skills”(1). She further explains this by indicating how many people especially young adults and teenager go online to talk as they find communicating face-to-face difficult. Which is a clear indication that people are losing important social skills. Furthermore, many people are becoming addicted to social media. Like any other addiction …show more content…
Through social networking we gain knowledge of current events quickly and improve or make new relationships online. Social networking has become an important part of everyone’s live in our current society. However, social networking is not always positive as it also has many negative aspects. It has been shown to decrease a person social ability making them more secluded from society, as they embrace the online world. Also, as many people cyber harass each other which in turn greatly affects their mental health affecting their ability fit in to the community. Furthermore, people rely too much on social networking exposing too much information and taking part in the popular trends. To conclude, although social networking is a powerful tool in today’s society it harbors many negative aspects which heavily influence people if used