Websites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn have brought about a major change in the culture of communications. These sites have become places where people can meet friends, potential partners, and even employers. Now, people join Facebook groups where they receive updates online instead of joining local community organizations that meet weekly. However, some say that communications these days are rapidly losing their personal touch due to these sites. They say that social networking sites, while useful, can never replace the sincerity and social experience of going out, meeting people, and interacting face to face.

Face to face contact

Many believers in face-to-face contact use psychology as their main source of arguments. According to them, face-to-face contact has many key benefits, such as improving people’s lives both socially and psychologically. Having face-to-face connections can make a person healthier. It also promotes behaviors that are beneficial for the growth of the entire society.

Some people believe that the lack of community participation is fostering a population that is not socially oriented. Rather than making people socially oriented, social media is producing self-connecting individuals who don’t realize the importance of nearby communities.

However, in truth, face-to-face communications are difficult to maintain.

Social media

This undeniably allows people to form strong, intimate communities that are not hampered by many factors that affect most face-to-face relationships. First, online communities have no geographic borders.

Second, some people find it easier to communicate in a more distant and less personal way. Face-to-face contact adds certain ingredients to the mix, ingredients that don’t invite open and honest communication. Some of these ingredients are competitiveness, insecurity about one’s appearance, pride, fear of being embarrassed, fear of saying the wrong things, etc. Through this, people can forget about appearances and simply communicate, and communicating over the Internet gives them time to think about what they are going to say. Although they remain personal, online communications provide enough anonymity for people to express themselves more freely, without worrying about how they dress and how they look. Also, perhaps the biggest advantage of social media, in fact, is how it has given even introverts a voice.

Similar to the effects of mobile phones, the effects of these types of networks have ultimately led to people being more connected to each other, not because they see each other daily or regularly, but because they can talk to each other. . anytime they want through the Internet. And even if friends are separated by geographical distance, social media ensures that the connection remains intact.

The benefits of social media in the way that people communicate, connect, and interact are undeniable, and even as critics continue to argue against it, the movement toward online communications shows no signs of stopping.