HOW Social Media is Making Us Unsocial

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Nowadays social media is disconnecting us, I saw plenty of people ho  out to dinner all the time and it drives me nuts and I see couples on dates clearly together but on their cell phones it’s one of the strangest things

A lot of people chose to connect online rather than to connect with a human being they chose social media over the potential of a real relationship right in front.

Social media is killing relationships, social media is replacing experiences and  has changed the way we live. Social media is impacting social issues. Our lives from the way we get news to the way we interact with loved ones it’s everywhere it’s powerful and it’s growing. 

According to the global Web index we spend on average two hours a day on social media and it’s increasing at a rate of two minutes per day over the course of a lifetime that’s five years and four months on social media that’s over 40,000 hours. We touch our phones or check our phones a hundred and fifty times a day, rather than visit a museum or art gallery we take to Instagram to view the works of artists like Banksy. We care more about how other people perceive our adventures than actually having them. world is changing with every passing moment because of technological inventions and rapid adoption of the technology but technology is not the problem, we are. And the reality is we are slowly becoming addicted.

How can we avoid being addicted: 

1.Limit time in social media

2.Make a list of entertaiments 

3.Always carry book with you

4.Call instead of write 

5.Turn off your telephone before you go to sleep

We need to use social media as a support to building real relationships but not to wreck.

9 thoughts on “HOW Social Media is Making Us Unsocial

  1. 45219-EX says:

    I agree in the sense that people are spending way too much time on their phones throughout the day and are becoming addicted to likes, followers and comments; however, it is hard to use the argument that social media is disconnecting us from one another when people use it to communicate with acquaintances, friends and family who far from one another.

  2. 46362 says:

    “We care more about how other people perceive our adventures than actually having them.” – this!! It’s a very true statement, and one of the things I hate about social media like Instagram the most.

    It’s also true that social media change the way we interact with others, but I wouldn’t necessarily say “kill relationships.” Personally, during the lockdowns, the ability to connect with others has helped ease the toll isolation took on my mental health. I also think, that social media help maintain friendships, which were never really deep and would break with time. Casually interacting with others on social media is our generation’s way of maintaining a network without having to physically interact, which is a great way to, e.g., save time. We have to work more than any other generation, so we might not have the time to cultivate close friendships and relationships AND have time for low-stake friendships, like older generations did.

  3. 46414 says:

    Good article, I agree that being a prisoner of your phone or any other device is a big problem nowadays. People clearly do not see how time consuming it really is when you use social media daily. I often even hear that people are complaining about not having enough time to do something at day time, but when you ask them what had happened that they were so busy and could not spent the time for simple things they like or they wanted to do( like doing work stuff, studying) the answer is often the same, “I was slacking all day and using my phone, laptop, ect.” We are all individuals and we need to control our selfs. The addiction to our devices is really getting out of hand.

  4. 46327 says:

    In the modern world everything is becoming mass produced. Same goes for human relationships. Social media are easy to use, do not require social skills and, to some extent, provide anonymity. One shows only what they want to show.

  5. 46373 says:

    I definitely agree that social media is killing our relationships and thus we are very anti-social. I also agree that increasing number of people is becoming addicted to their phones, they can’t even imagine living without them, because they’ll “loose contact with peers”. In fact, when it comes to meeting they don’t even have topics for conversation and they are less communicative. Therefore, I think that you are right that people who use their phones too much should limit it! It could definitely change their quality of lives. I’m very grateful that you brought this topic up, because more and more young people are struggling with it, without even realizing that. Good article, thank you!

  6. Iga Zielińska says:

    I do agree people spend way to much time on their phone. Social media is a great tool to maintain long distance relationships. Of course nothing will substitute the actual face to face time but I do get how someone can spend hours texting with their friends. What I don’t understand is how can we spend so much time watching meaningless videos and memes and just scroll through Instagram all afternoon. There are many good apps you can download to monitor the time you spend on social media or limit it to a certain amount of time per day

  7. 46457 says:

    I do agree with the sentiment of people spending too much time on their phone. Social media is great at networking and maintaining relationships but it doesn’t and will never substitute the face to face interactions humans are built for. But I suppose each generation has its struggle. The millennials had the great depression and we have this .Hopefully we will overcome it

  8. 46349 says:

    1. Indeed, I spend more than 5 hours on the phone a day, and it seems to me that I could better spend my time communicating personally with people, thanks for the advice!

  9. 46508 says:

    Thats an article that everyone should read! I think every user should know what dangers of internet are wainting behind smiley faces and smooth apps. Personally im surprised by my self and time that i spent looking at my monitor just mindlessly scrolling. I hope each of us will find some balance, cause nothing is just black or white. In the end Social Media isn’t bad. Its just a program.

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