Week 6 Homework: "Add your opinion to the debate about social media"

'Social Networks don't bring us closer together as we now talk through computers rather than to each other.'

I partially agree and disagree with the statement; for one social media has become a great, well known way of communication over the web and is used by many to contact people not there in the flesh. We use sites such as Facebook, kik and msn to talk with friends and family for many reasons. From planning an event to discussing the latest gossip, social networking sites can easily be seen as great ways to organise future plans when we cannot talk face-to-face.

On the other hand, we could view talking with someone from behind a computer screen to be ignorant and disrespectful. As time goes on, we rely more and more on the internet to move society onto the next big thing and forget about how we once used to communicate. It may seem easier to sit behind a phone or laptop screen, however we are forgetting the importance of social interaction face-to-face.