I It Relation Summary

Buber shows us his philosophy of dialogue in two different relations.Them being the I-It relations and I-Thou relations. It is seen that an I-It relation is the normal everyday relation of a human being toward his/ her surroundings in which someone can look at someone as an It and not have a close relationship by any means. On the contrary the I-Thou relation shows the individual within a close relationship with another human with his or her entire being. This relationship becomes a genuine relationship within 2 people. In I-It the person that is the I looks at the other person as the It and only some parts of the I are involved because they are detached. As Buber states, “The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one’s whole being. The …show more content…
While I thou shows a focus more on personal relationships with each other while making strong bonds. We must treat people within the terms of “thou” and not “it” as we need to recognize people humanly. When reading Buber there is a huge relevancy that can be communicated into the world today in a sense of how social media is tackled and viewed. Buber suggests that Facebook twitter and other forms of social media can never come to substitute a person to person dialogue in any way. Buber portrays a notion that enhances the fact that social media is here to better communicate certain conversations that were establish on that one on one relationship in person. There are incredibly essential and defining characteristics of human's relationships that juts cannot be copied in any way through social media. The technologies of social networking can be a bad thing if used inadequately but they can also help frame certain relationships. When speaking of them negatively one can focus on the “I-it” as one is concerned with their Facebook status or how many people liked a certain picture or commented on certain