Social media has come to stay for good and bad. We choose which would work for us.

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Do you feel closer to your friends and family because of social media, or do you think it keeps you apart?

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To a greater extent, I would say I feel closer to my family and friends because of social media. Social media has come to make meaning to our relationships with friends and loved ones.

The same social media we use to relate with family and friends can also be the same means to keep us apart and distant in our relationships with people.

On the positive side, I have become so close with my relatives who are not staying with me, and that has helped us bond in a very demure way.

The use of social media to reach and interact with these people makes it less difficult, and easy to reach them at any time.
So I would say social media has helped me stay close to my family and friends.

How often do you use your phone or computer to talk to people compared to meeting them in person?

I use my phone whenever I’m not busy with something physically. I fell talking with people on the phone is way cheaper than meeting with them in person, especially if the distance is far.

I also feel that for communication to be effective and fun, we must meet physically. But I’ve also come to realise that I like my space, and we can all talk and relate so well from the comfort of my home.

Can technology help us make new friends, or does it mainly connect us with people we already know?

Technology does both. But it helps us in making new friends more quickly.

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The world has become a global village where we get to meet with all kinds of people, both the ones we know, and strangers. And this is also about us having e-family and friends. It really helps us in making new friends more.

Have you ever felt lonely while using social media? Why do you think that happens?

There are a couple of time I have felt lonely even when I am using a social media platform. The media (social) is congested with people, and at the same time lonely. Sometimes, people feel depressed because they have no one to talk with when they can see that many are actively online.

The feeling of not being communicated with can make one feel they’ve been ignored or having nothing valuable to communicate. This is why someone would easily feel left out. Thus, depression or loneliness can set in.

How has technology changed the way we communicate with each other?

Technology has changed almost everything about our communication with people.

We are always concerned with getting a message across and leaving to do something else. In cases where we have to manage the data we have, it becomes a bit difficult to spend longer time with our friends.

The language is much more informal and can become a problem if we are relating with elderly people.

Gestures: It has become a bit difficult to see how people are responding nonverbally to our messages.

Except in the case of a video call, which is still not a full guarantee, we cannot see the facial expressions of the people we are interacting with, or their body movements.

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Bond: Bonding with people is becoming less and less important when interacting with them. Real connection happens when we see and spend more time with people, from there, we begin to bond.

These days, a good number of people do not care about connecting with people. They just want to breeze in and out.

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