Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Technology and Social Interaction
I think that technology has had both a positive and a negative effect on face to face interaction. Positive because sometimes you do get to meet some pretty cool people from your school that you probably would not have ran into online and become really good friends. But it is also negative because it is kind of weird to talk over the internet to someone and when you see them in person not really acknowledge their presence. I think meeting people online is a good thing if you are in it for the right reasons. Pedophiles are usually meeting younger people on the internet which is not cool at all. But if you are actually trying to meet someone and start a life with someone and you do not have the verbal skills to interact with people face to face, than a dating site would be very helpful to them because they can see what interest they both like and most of the time the dating sites really work. I think that we as a society do need to create more face to face relationships, but everyone is into the new technology and there are so many ways to communicate online now that it is going to be extremely difficult to get our society away from at least meeting one person online
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I agree with your positive effects. Like for me I have a friend who added me before freshman year started and he was really nice and friendly then when school started I already had one friend before I met anyone else. It was nice to have that when you go onto a school where none of your close friends go to. & I also agree that it's bad to talk to someone online then not acknowledge them in person. I think its just mainly rude. However I've done that before, not on purpose, but just because I didn't recognize them or I obliviously walked by in my own little world. Pedophiles=gross, agreed. When it comes down to it, I feel like face to face relationships are definitely more healthy to have but technology should be used to help us keep in touch or make plans to meet face to face like a quick text saying "Dinner at 6?" with a friend that you already know well.
ReplyDeletei agree with you. i feel that there are both positive and negative aspects to society's reliance on technology. It is a good way to get introduced to people and maybe meet new people in a new area if you just moved or something, however, I still feel that it is important to meet people in person. there is just something so much more special to a relationship in person as opposed to online.
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