As a senior communication major, much of my education has been focused on the ways in which we communicate and how that has changed over time. One prominent way our communication tactics have changed is we have switched all face to face communication all the time, and now we have mediated communication to play with. Mediated communication is any communication we do over a given medium, whether it be print (texting) on a computer (email, social media), or over a phone. I have always been interested in how this change has effected our social skills. We now text or email our friends instead of calling them, does this make us socially incompetent over the phone? We use Facebook and Twitter to chat and keep up with our friends, does this make us more socially apprehensive in social situations? Maybe.
I have two ways to go about researching this for this project. I can narrow it down to only text-based communication, or I can dive into the social media realm and look into how we are socially inept. Our society strives on us being social and having certain social skills… is our generation ruining society as we know it? Job interviews, education, etcetera depend on social individuals… so what now?
Social media has always caught my interest. It’s so dangerous and the whole world is connected. Based on my interest in the subject and it’s currency, I choose to focus on social media for this project. So, does social media make us socially apprehensive? Let’s find out.
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