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I’d add more balance to the post. While I agree there are major positives of social media (and I’d add connecting with folks in other parts of the world that you would otherwise never get to meet/interact with), I can think of two negatives weren’t mentioned:
1) Social media may result in fewer “live” human interactions. It’s entirely possible that a growing # of people will communicate with people at “arm’s length,” rather than actally spending time with them in a live setting (and I think something gets lost in translation).
2) Social media also puts amateurs in increasingly important roles…and not everyone is up to the task. for instance, reporting on world events is serious business; professional ethics matter. Heavily biased views (if you don’t know that they’re actually biased) may prove problematic to the news digestive system. It’s hard to “consider the source” when you don’t actually know the source very well.
That’s my .02 anyway.
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I find that Social Media has many positives for me. As a business owner, I may not always be able to communicate with my customers. Making myself available outside the norm of email and phone allows my customers to interact with me whether a dispute is not resolved with a CSR or simply to rave about the service. Social Media is allowing faster and instant communication around the world. The possibilities here are endless. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of each user not to abuse of cause harm.
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I did a research project on this very topic. My partner and I didn’t find anything conclusive– we basically came up with the same ideas you have here: it has positives and negatives. We felt like neither of those really outweighed the other.
Our main points were: social media facilitates interactions and relationships that might not otherwise exist, giving people the opportunity to be in touch with or stay in touch with people they normally wouldn’t. Bonds are formed, even if they aren’t based on physical proximity.
On the other hand, it (of course) diminishes the amount of physical contact and face-to-face interactions, which feels like devolution.
Would it really diminish the amount of physical contact? You still have the same amount of physical contact with those you’ve already had physical contact with. By reaching out to others via social media, you meet others you never knew, but would you have ever met them outside of social media?
While there is somewhat of a disconnect between online friends vs. physical friends, I don’t see social media causing you to lose touch with those physical friends.
If there is anything I have experienced from Social Media it’s that online friends often find ways to meet each other off-line.
When you spend more time with online friends v. physical friends, or more time networking with social media tools than in the real/physical world.
I also feel like it decreases the need for physical friends (the ones you already knew) to have real-life conversations with one another. I can’t count the times my friends start to tell me stories and I have to stop them because I’ve already read it on their blog.
I don’t think it’s possible to argue that technology doesn’t reduce the amount of face-to-face interactions necessary in a person’s life: online bill-pay, drive-thru windows, iPod buds constantly in your ear so you don’t even have to acknowledge anyone else’s presence, send a text rather than call, call rather than visit, etc.
I use it and love it, but I do think it’s socially/psychologically degenerative.
While I agree with Marianne that there is always the danger of Social Media aiding in a more secular society & less “live” interaction, I have actually found the opposite to be true.
On Facebook I have reconnected with several friends from High School and we have planned an impromptu reunion of sorts in a few weeks when we will all be in town. And just yesterday I attended a Tweetup where several Twitterers from the Orlando area met downtown for lunch.
So, what I see is a greater chance to interact and connect with people and maybe it’s our preconceptions about relationships and their boundaries that need to change.
However, I completely agree that Social Media does allow anyone with a keyboard to proclaim themselves an “expert” on something and most of them are full of –searching for appropriate phrase– hot air.
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Something that recently hit me over the head WRT facebook is the fact that people in their 30s will friend their children and then also be friends with people who leave NC-17 rated comments on pictures, etc. I’m talking about statements that I would kick somebody out of my house over. It’s not cool.
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Wow, I never realised there was so much bad stuff in relation to scoial media, have these people who get bullied not heard about blacklisting?
Great post, Social Media is going to completly overhaul the internet in 2009.
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social media works.