SOCIAL MEDIA CAUSES ISOLATION AND LONLINESS
While social media may be perceived as a new type of connection that strengthens socials relationships, social media has contributed to social issues such as loneliness and isolation. The use of social media detaches people from their real social world. The social networks also bring only the like-minded people together, which hinders their capability to view social life in different perspectives. On the other hand, the sites have led to the increased competition and comparison of lifestyles that lead to loneliness. On this basis, social media, in spite of its ability to bring distant people close together, has led to increased loneliness and isolation by offering superficial relationships and reducing the physical aspects of personal relationships.
Firstly, the social media sites have increased burden to the ways in which people socialize. Social networks have been blamed for increasing social isolation of young people such as teens from the real …show more content…
Social networks usually bring like-minded individuals together, which deny them a chance to think and engage in diverse perspectives in the real world. People tend to detach themselves from others whom they think that they are not like-minded consequently weakening their skills to socialize with different groups in the real world. Social networks have led to the increased formation of diverse social groups in life leading to division among members of different social classes due to the lack of effective interaction skills. The isolation usually makes individuals fear to interact with others whom they view that have different perspectives of life (Agrawal 2016). To this regard, social media sites usually bring together like-minded individuals and create the complication of the interaction of people from different social
While social media may be perceived as a new type of connection that strengthens socials relationships, social media has contributed to social issues such as loneliness and isolation. The use of social media detaches people from their real social world. The social networks also bring only the like-minded people together, which hinders their capability to view social life in different perspectives. On the other hand, the sites have led to the increased competition and comparison of lifestyles that lead to loneliness. On this basis, social media, in spite of its ability to bring distant people close together, has led to increased loneliness and isolation by offering superficial relationships and reducing the physical aspects of personal relationships.
Firstly, the social media sites have increased burden to the ways in which people socialize. Social networks have been blamed for increasing social isolation of young people such as teens from the real …show more content…
Social networks usually bring like-minded individuals together, which deny them a chance to think and engage in diverse perspectives in the real world. People tend to detach themselves from others whom they think that they are not like-minded consequently weakening their skills to socialize with different groups in the real world. Social networks have led to the increased formation of diverse social groups in life leading to division among members of different social classes due to the lack of effective interaction skills. The isolation usually makes individuals fear to interact with others whom they view that have different perspectives of life (Agrawal 2016). To this regard, social media sites usually bring together like-minded individuals and create the complication of the interaction of people from different social