Alex Lickerman The Effect Of Technology On Relationships Analysis

With social media and the internet being a big part of our lives as teenagers and young adults today, there’s no limit to all the possibilities and opportunities you can come across with just the click of a button. My cousin, Kayla, and I have watched and witnessed people on Youtube and Vine become movie stars, just from their supporters and fans never giving up on them. The internet can be a wonderful place for people to connect and help each other become successful, but it can also be a way to escape reality. While following and subscribing to our favorite social media stars, Kayla and I also connect online with friends and friends of friends on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Meeting people that you heard went to your rival school on Facebook …show more content…
In the article, The Effect of Technology on Relationships by Alex Lickerman, it explains how social media has taken the place of personal interactions and substituted in electronic relationships. In the article, he rationalizes how maybe the people who are replacing real relationships with online ones maybe don’t feel comfortable being face-to-face, so they go online to live their lives in a way to where they don’t have to. Lickerman calls this “social isolation”. He also explains how the cost of this type of social interaction is making people more comfortable with saying things on the internet that they usually wouldn’t say in person, that being either confrontation or how they choose to make people online see them. He explains how you can’t actually get to know everything about a person by just communicating over the internet. “So much communication and meaning is lost in the latter. And our effect on one another is much more intense when we meet in person.” You never actually get a real taste of how a person reacts to certain things, or how they carry themselves in the real