It is my belief that social media is killing society.
I have looked up definitions. Social adjective, not single, a group of over one.
Social media is a party killer. I am talking about these symptoms of the society killer. You walk into a room full of people and everyone has a phone in their hands and is not engaging each other at all that we can see. But typing away, and then one person laughs, looks at the person standing a foot away, and says good one. Two teens are sitting on the same couch typing away on their phones. One says to the other, let's go then. Sitting not even a foot apart, yet using social media to talk to each other. Or texting.
No one else around, so talking secrets is out. So yes, I believe social media is killing society. Take this test for yourself and let's see what happens. The test is for those two girls to put down their phones and only use landline home phone to call people for one week. You will actually have to engage people in the actual world. I am pretty sure most people would think they were going to die without their phone for seven days. I mean even I would feel some loss.
To be fair social media is a tool we used to stay connected to people otherwise lost to us. We use it to advertise. To post our opinions and thoughts. I have used it for research. Pinterest being my favourite.
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