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Social media allows us to connect with other like-minded individuals more easily, and at a faster pace, than ever before. It also helps us find new interests, while realizing that we might not be alone in our love of some particular topic or hobby.
Is real life interaction better than social media?
The study found that only real-life social support was linked to better overall mental health, Meshi explained. Typical interactions over social media, instead, were much more limited.
Social media gives them access their friends at any moment, making them feel less alone even if they are physically. Social media allows us to engage with people we don’t know, who have similar interests, and make a big change. Social media activism has been one of the most positive aspects of social media.
How does social media affect your personality?
In addition, research has also shown that there are personality differences in the social media sites preferred by users, with those who preferred Twitter displaying higher need for cognition, and those who preferred Facebook displaying higher sociability, extraversion and neuroticism (Hughes et al., 2012).
There are quite a lot of reasons why people think that social media is affecting real-life communication negatively, yet it has not destroyed it.
What are the negative effects of social media on society?
Due to the excessive amount of friends online to communicate with, people could find themselves having not enough time or energy to spend on real-life friends. These are not the only negative consequences of increasing use of social media.
A new report from Common Sense Media finds that teenagers are distracted from real-life interactions by social media apps.