Has social media limited your social skills?

Has social media limited your social skills? Has social media caused you to lose your confidence, and social skills? Social media, such as Facebook, Instatgram, and Twitter has been limiting society social skills over a period of ten or more years, because it has given people a false confidence, unrealistic expectations of relationships, and people don't know how to act with people face-to-face and deal with body language and intimate situations because they are behind a screen. Before we had social media we gained our confidence from standing up to people, and actually facing our problems face-to-face. Now that we have social media we gain our confidence from hiding behind a screen, and not facing our problems face-to-face. Society today finds it easy to stand up and to bully people over the Internet, because they don't have to face the person or the consequences. Another fallback from hiding behind a screen is that you can use a fake user name and not have to reveal your identity; resulting in not having to face your problems. Before social media, many relationships were based off of trust and personal interaction, now that social media has developed relationships are based off of non-face-to-face conversations, text messages, and pictures etc. We as society now use social networks as a means to communicate with one another, such as, twittering a post about what we are doing, posting a picture of something we just ate or who we are hanging out with, and updating relationship status, etc. Social media has also made it easy to cheat, for example, someone can unintentionally flirt, have secret inbox messages, delete information, etc. Social media has caused personal interaction to be awkward, and sometimes unenjoyable. Because of social media we sometimes have a hard time reading body language and detecting when someone is mad, happy, sad, etc. A person cannot tell body language through a text message, an email, Facebook, Twitter, or Instatgram post, body