Should Social Media be the Substitute for Real-life Social Interaction?

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brings about further self-disclosure (860). As self-disclosure reveals willingness to interact, a person's self-disclosures lead to social interaction among people (Bareket-Bojmel and Golan 747). Socializing with others via Facebook, MSN, and emails, responding to other people's weblogs by leaving comments, and broadcasting home videos and documenting lives on YouTube can make social interaction lively and interactive. When views on different topics are posted by joining chat rooms or homepages, immediate responses with different aspects are collected. This makes social media interactive.
The interactive social media is a convenient tool to express opinion; however, except video calling media, like Skype, most of the communication means of the internet are mainly based on typing on a keyboard which lacks face-to-face interaction. Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Thomas Friedman wrote in his column of The New York Times that "technology is dividing us as much as uniting ...

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the internet as a fantastic communication platform claim that it is a convenient way to make new friends. The internet acts as a global village where we can make friends with people all over the world. There is no doubt that having friends from different backgrounds and cultures helps us to broaden our horizons. By chatting with them, we not only can learn different points of views but can also explore other countries' cultures. As a matter of fact, some add that our social lives are limited to the people around us, to name a few, schoolmates, relatives, and neighbors. What we communicate with them is just trivialities. Traditional ways of making new friends are inefficient. Social ...

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