Challenges of Facebook,Twitter and Youtube on Friendship

YouTube is different than Facebook and Twitter it is still another social media outlet that is popular with all ages. YouTube allows anyone to post videos and comments. YouTube allows people to subscribe to someone’s channels, comment and even send them emails. 

It is a good way to build connections, we see people become famous over night after posting YouTube channels and people with talent often find themselves being contacted by people that can help them. This just shows another way for people to connect over the web.

• ·        Being over the web it is hard to show expression and there is no body language to read while interacting with friends. The problem with this is people often don’t know if you are being sarcastic, if you’re mad, etc… it is hard to tell someone’s emotion over the internet.
• ·        According to a Study by VitalSmarts there has been an increase in social media usage and 78 percent reported an increase in rudeness online. And one in five people have reduced their face-to-face contact with someone they know in real life after an online insistent.
• ·        People are able to hide behind a computer and say things that they usually wouldn’t say to someone’s face because there is a sense of protection behind social media accounts.
• ·        People are also able to post anything they want, pictures, comments and much more. There was reports in the study that there have been fights about certain pictures friends posted and comments that were posted
• ·        The average youth ages 8 to 18 averages 6-plus hours a day of activity on social media.
• ·        Fifty four percent of teens send text messages and one third of teens send more than 100 texts per day. Basically all this Social media and increase with technology we are seeing kids become less interactive with people face to face. We are losing communication skills and in return this is affecting friendship building.

Future in friendship building through social media

• ·        There is an increase in use of social media use and the trend seems that it is only getting more popular with companies making social media accounts, etc…
• ·        There are even websites that ask for Facebook logins in order to keep track of customers and their spending habits.
• ·        We are meeting new virtual friends that we have not met face to face but have mutual friends over social media outlets.
• ·         In the future we will kids even younger using a lot of different social media outlets as well. 

By: Braydon C.