Social solitude

Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has been a huge thing. Hundreds of millions go online every day to socially interact with their friends in several distinguishable communication platforms. This daily action has flushed out the regular, fysical interaction by meeting people face to face. Is this a positive developement, or will this be the end to close friendships?

Endless entertainment

A social media is a meeting place which people from around the globe can experience multiple social activities. The most popular one, Facebook (with over 1.3 billion users), presents each individual with an enormous universe of ways to connect with people. There is no limit to how much content you can access and share. This makes Facebook, as many other social medias, what is called an infinity machine; It gives you endless scrolling trough endless streams of content. Therefore, these medias are enormously time consuming.

Starved or stuffed?

Of course, social interactions has two sides. You can not expect something without giving something else away. In this case, you recieve an amazing world of online experiences, not to mention the small-scale interactions with your most loyal friends. The downside of all this is the fact that people are simply ignoring the “old fashioned” face-to-face interactions which has passed on for several human generations. Therefore, we are met with a dillemma whether the humanity should preserve the old fashioned forms of communitaction, or if the modern should prevail.

In the end,

..there really is not any excuse for not using social medias now a days. You will find mostly everything you are looking for there, and the fact that the society expects you to be there, most people are. As the world grows, so does the need to explore. Therefore, the social pressure is something we all will have to adapt to.

(I realized afterwards this may not answer the task, but rather something exam-like. Sorry about that)