Supporters believe online sites do not inhibit confidence because of their social nature. Users post on walls, answer stranger’s questions, and share knowledge with one another. The confidence simply differs because users become shielded from their true identity by a created persona. The user-created persona socializes with other personas creating a fictional and always accessible world. Lack of downtime leaves users with an illusion of interaction with other people. Not physical togetherness. Users interact with others from behind a shield, never really socializing face-to-face. The technological shield inhibits proxemics and makes it impossible for those communicating to see the involuntary body movements of their counterpart, leaving a dislocated and artificial feeling. But, increases in online networking will lead to social skill atrophy. By increasing online networking, people will become left experiencing life
Supporters believe online sites do not inhibit confidence because of their social nature. Users post on walls, answer stranger’s questions, and share knowledge with one another. The confidence simply differs because users become shielded from their true identity by a created persona. The user-created persona socializes with other personas creating a fictional and always accessible world. Lack of downtime leaves users with an illusion of interaction with other people. Not physical togetherness. Users interact with others from behind a shield, never really socializing face-to-face. The technological shield inhibits proxemics and makes it impossible for those communicating to see the involuntary body movements of their counterpart, leaving a dislocated and artificial feeling. But, increases in online networking will lead to social skill atrophy. By increasing online networking, people will become left experiencing life