The Effect of Social Media on Person to Person Socialization

Social Media has been around for many years, websites like MySpace, Twitter, or Facebook. With over millions of users, they allowed you to look up just about anyone; it was a good way to stay in touch with friends, family members or maybe someone you graduated with years ago. It made it easy for people to stay in contact or form relationships and talk to just about anyone. But what people really don’t know is that social media comes with many negative affects. People spend so many hours on the website that they forget their relationship to the real world or how to socialize and interact with others. They become so caught up with what’s on the internet that they don’t pay attention to the real world and what goes on around them. They start to lack on face to face contact with people. Which isn’t a good thing, socializing is apart of peoples everyday lives. When someone is around people it becomes awkward because they might be used to spending so much time on social websites talking to others. Eventually, they lack on social skills and may become anti-social around people. Being anti-social can be a bad thing, maybe a job requires you to go out and talk to people, but they can’t because they lack on their social skills with other people. Its not only adults spending time on these websites, but also children spending many hours on social websites. Having children spend many hours on their iPhones and iPods isn’t good either. Social media when used at a young can dramatically affect someone’s social life when interacting with people, because they will not know how to communicate with words face to face. Its okay to spend time on social medias, just as long as you don’t spend a lot of time on these websites. Its not good to lose your socializing skills. Not only does it affect their daily lives but it starts to affect their work environment. Many business require that you spend some time on these website selling products or talking to clients about their