Sunday, 24 November 2013

Social Media and Friendship (2)


Being over the web is hard to show expressions and there is no body language to read while interacting with friends. The problem with this is people often do not know if you are being sarcastic, sad or angry. It is very hard to tell someone’s emotion over the Internet, which can pose another challenge of friendship building over the web. According to a study by VitalSmarts there has been an increase in social media usage and 78% reported an increase in rudeness online. Also one in five people have reduced their face-to-face contact with someone they know in real life after an online insistent.[1]
This shows how social media is changing the way we react to friendship and how we build new ones. The average youth ages 8 to 18 averages 6 plus hours a day of activity in social media that’s ¼ of a day spent online interacting with others. Fifty four percent of teens send text messages and one third of teens send more than 100 texts per day. With technology changing and social media becoming increasingly popular we are spending more time on the web talking through the web rather than in person. 

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