Annotated Bibliography: Social Media And Interpersonal Communication
Annotated Bibliography
Keller, Maura. "Social Media and Interpersonal Communication." Social Media and Interpersonal Communication. Social Work Today, May-June 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2016.
The author writes about how social media affects real life communication. She shares that people like to have things simpler; so we’d rather text than talk on the phone, and email rather than meet each other. According to Paul Booth, a PhD, nowadays people are actually becoming more social and interactive to others through social media, but the way of communicating each other has changed.
This article explains that actually our social media interactions are weak ties, we don’t feel personally connected unlike face-to-face communication to people. Even if we …show more content…
What an individual does in social media or cyberspace are quite different to their behaviour in real life. One of example of how it differs is cyber-bullying. Many people bullies other people through social media because they are afraid of the consequences that may occur if he/she does it in real life. The biggest fear taking place is how teenagers are not learning how to act in face-to-face conversation. We need to realize that conversations in cyberspace may not be translated in real life, making kids slowly losing their social skills. This article is good for another topic point for my argument regarding the negative use of social …show more content…
Many believes that the idea of face-to-face communicating will soon diminish as many will prefer texting as a way to communicate. In the past, mobile phones were in larger size and aren’t as convenient as it is now. Many students were also tested on how fast they can type. But nowadays, many teenagers are setting up new records with both their typing speed and the amount of text messages they send. At the end, Lenny Chapman shares that we shouldn’t use mobile phones excessively as there are still people who enjoy face-to-face conversation. I think I’m going to use this as the examples on how social media affects social
Keller, Maura. "Social Media and Interpersonal Communication." Social Media and Interpersonal Communication. Social Work Today, May-June 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2016.
The author writes about how social media affects real life communication. She shares that people like to have things simpler; so we’d rather text than talk on the phone, and email rather than meet each other. According to Paul Booth, a PhD, nowadays people are actually becoming more social and interactive to others through social media, but the way of communicating each other has changed.
This article explains that actually our social media interactions are weak ties, we don’t feel personally connected unlike face-to-face communication to people. Even if we …show more content…
What an individual does in social media or cyberspace are quite different to their behaviour in real life. One of example of how it differs is cyber-bullying. Many people bullies other people through social media because they are afraid of the consequences that may occur if he/she does it in real life. The biggest fear taking place is how teenagers are not learning how to act in face-to-face conversation. We need to realize that conversations in cyberspace may not be translated in real life, making kids slowly losing their social skills. This article is good for another topic point for my argument regarding the negative use of social …show more content…
Many believes that the idea of face-to-face communicating will soon diminish as many will prefer texting as a way to communicate. In the past, mobile phones were in larger size and aren’t as convenient as it is now. Many students were also tested on how fast they can type. But nowadays, many teenagers are setting up new records with both their typing speed and the amount of text messages they send. At the end, Lenny Chapman shares that we shouldn’t use mobile phones excessively as there are still people who enjoy face-to-face conversation. I think I’m going to use this as the examples on how social media affects social