How has modern social media changed social interaction?

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How has modern social media changed social interaction?
Introduction
How does social media affect human interaction? Will direct interaction diminish due to the
advent of the new machineries? Social competency can be termed as an important ideal that most
people uses to strive forward, but there is an evidence claiming that it is actually harming the
ability of the people to interact in an offline setting. The main aim of this paper is to find out how
has modern social media changed social interaction? In order to answer these question we will
have to answer these associated questions- what are the negative impacts of social media in
relation to relational communication? Is there any therapeutic effect of online communication?
How social networking does affects face to face interaction?
Negative Impact of social media in the interpersonal communication
Social media has affected several areas of contemporary life and has impacted the
modern life of people and personal interaction profoundly. The present-day is characterised by
lack of time as in most of the cases most of the family members’ remains employed for having a
satisfactory life style, with no time for interaction among one another (Subramanian, 2017).
Nowadays, time has become a very valuable resources. Using social media for communicating
with the production of mobile or digital equipment have fulfilling the social needs has become an
important media for the communication. It is evident from the paper, digitalisation has decreased
the face to face communication between humans, and be it for the advertising of for the
promotion of a product.

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Subramanian, K. R. (2017). Influence of Social Media in Interpersonal
Communication. International Journal of Scientific Progress and Research, 109(38), 70-75.
The paper by Subramanian, (2017) has also looked at pros and the cons of the social
media. The author is a professor of management and a senior consultant. According to the
author, one of the potentially negative influencer of social media includes cyber bullying, that
has largely affected the antecedents and the behavioral, affective and the emotional
consequences. Another concern that affects is that individuals invest more time in checking
through the phones, rather than face to face interactions (Subramanian, 2017). People faces a
strong sense of identity online and faces difficulty in separating their virtual action with reality.
One of important negative impact of using social media is lack of privacy. Since the
interpersonal means of communication is changing continuously, people are likely to share all
sorts of information that might have been given face to face.
Therapeutic effects of online communication
The formation and the preservation of friendship network is a crucial process at the time
of adolescence period. At this stage, the peer group plays an important role in teenager’s life. At
this stage the peers get influenced and often displaces the parental relationship as the main
foundation of social support for the young generation. There is a strong sense of link between the
wellbeing of a person. Best, Manktelow and Taylor, (2014) have shown connotation between the
health and high relatedness delivered by different social networking websites. The prominence of
the social support network can further be emphasized, if one contemplates the psychological cost
related to the suppression of the emotions due to lack of social support.