Limits Of Friendship By Maria Konnikov The Negative Effects Of Twitter
Although Twitter has an extreme amount of users, many of these people are unaware of how the negative effects will impact them in the future. Twitter has become an extremely popular platform of social media where people go to stay updated with the news, friends, and family. Social media, specifically Twitter, is detrimentally affecting users because it is leading to decreased productivity, it is affecting people’s relationships, and it is negatively impacting people’s communication skills. In today’s society it is imperative that people understand the affects that social media will have on them in the present and future. Twitter has led people to decrease their productivity when doing any form of work; it has become a major distraction for
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As this website continues to expand, people are relying less on face-to-face interactions and more on virtual friends and relationships. Getting followed by someone or having a tweet retweeted is more important to some people than having a real life interaction with them. In Maria Konnikova’s article, “The Limits of Friendship,” she says, “without investing the face-to-face time, we lack deeper connections to them, and the time we invest in superficial relationships comes at the expense of more profound ones” (238). By only communicating online, it is a surface level relationship; there is no human interaction that connects the two people that shows true feeling and emotion. This is detrimental to a lot of relationships today. Many people use Twitter to share funny videos or memes with their friends and they do this by directly messaging them through the app; there is no real life interaction. Konnikova states, “We do have a social media equivalent - sharing, liking, knowing that all of your friends have looked at the same cat video on Youtube as you did- but it lacks the synchronicity of shared experience” (237). Twitter users can share as many tweets and videos with their friends, but there is nothing equivalent to sharing a real life experience with one another. Humans are losing the skill to interact and have deep, intellectual conversations because of Twitter and its ability to share a tweet with the click of a
As this website continues to expand, people are relying less on face-to-face interactions and more on virtual friends and relationships. Getting followed by someone or having a tweet retweeted is more important to some people than having a real life interaction with them. In Maria Konnikova’s article, “The Limits of Friendship,” she says, “without investing the face-to-face time, we lack deeper connections to them, and the time we invest in superficial relationships comes at the expense of more profound ones” (238). By only communicating online, it is a surface level relationship; there is no human interaction that connects the two people that shows true feeling and emotion. This is detrimental to a lot of relationships today. Many people use Twitter to share funny videos or memes with their friends and they do this by directly messaging them through the app; there is no real life interaction. Konnikova states, “We do have a social media equivalent - sharing, liking, knowing that all of your friends have looked at the same cat video on Youtube as you did- but it lacks the synchronicity of shared experience” (237). Twitter users can share as many tweets and videos with their friends, but there is nothing equivalent to sharing a real life experience with one another. Humans are losing the skill to interact and have deep, intellectual conversations because of Twitter and its ability to share a tweet with the click of a