Do Social Media (e.i. Facebook, MySpace, Flicker, Twitter and ect.) improve communication skills or reduce social activity in the real world?

It is not a hidden truth that social media and the internet have become a big part for most people’s lives in this generation.  It is apparent that even the young ones are very active socially online. People are currently bounded to the technology they are enjoying and that is because of the social networking sites widely available for everyone.

This generation has become much more involved to what’s happening through the World Wide Web. If one tries to observe, one will find out that people are much more inclined and connected socially online than they do in the real world.

Why?

It is readily available for everyone. You can make multiple accounts if you like. You can post anything that you’d like. You can enjoy communicating with friends. You get to have the chance of exercising your freedom of speech without being afraid of rejection. You can interact with different kinds of people even with the celebrities and personalities that you like.

For some, social media is a way to meet new people without having the hassle of meeting them in person. Others make it a hub for communicating with their loved ones who are living on the other side of the world.

But despite all these somehow those who are socially active online tend to forget the importance of connecting with the real world and the physical people around them.

The question then arises; do social media improve communication skills or reduce our social activity in the real world?

The answer can be both because the use of social media is ones responsibility.

It may reduce social activity in the physical world because too much attachment to social media and the internet may make you disconnected to the people living around you. On the internet, most conversations are on the superficial level so when one tries to connect to the real world one may not be able to start a more personal and deeper conversation. In short it may make one an impersonal conversationalist.

It may also improve communication skills. Through media and the internet with good use of both one may be able to push through a campaign or a move to make others see of what’s happening in the world today. There is a great chance of reaching out not just to a few people but to many and be able to communicate with them. In short social media may make you a good social communicator.

 The answer lies on people who use social media. It is the user whose responsibility of what the outcome will be. It is just a matter of being human and at the same time being virtually active but there must be balance. It is good to be virtually active but it must be made sure that one does not forget that as a human being one must connect to people.

Just as the cliché goes, too much of anything is BAD. 

Intuition

As humans we somehow have an idea of what may happen in the future. We have clues of what is to come and we feel it. That is what we call a gut feeling or intuition. 

It's the feeling of being emotionally sure that something will be happening. One example is joining a game show and on the games show you feel that the jackpot is on the color brown and it is. Another example is when you suddenly feel sad without a reason then later you find out that someone in your family had passed away.

THERE ARE TIMES that intuition is just right and it does happens. Many have regretted not following their intuitive mind whether it be in their work, study or  else where.

Others may not believe it because intuition for them is just the product of the mind or purely on based feelings which are not always reliable. 


We, people make decisions in life. We choose and live. We make big and small choices in life.That's just how it works. We may base our decisions  on intuition or facts and sound thinking. It is up to us. Whether we trust our intuition or the things which are based on facts.

Our lives depend on us not on other people. It is our responsibility to make wise decisions and life gave us our hearts and minds it is up to us how to use it.