The Negative Effects Of The World Wide web On Social Skills

Ever since the internet has become the standard, there has been a dispute about its affect on social wellbeing.

On one hand are those who claim that , with social media sites like Facebook, the internet has enabled the public to improve their social lives than before. At the other end of the spectrum are those who claim that the increased time the public spent bouncing around on the web have become more and more cut off from others, and are missing out on true socialization.

Science is now getting its say.

A study done through the Stockholm school of Economics looked into the connection between peoples’ use of the internet and how they scored on a variety of various measures of social wellbeing, such as emotional wellbeing and work life balance.

The lead investigator of the study, Dr. Elizabeth Engleberg found that people with who used the internet the most often were significantly more lonesome and had a poorer balance between work and play than those with low internet use.

This outcome strongly confirms the hypothesis that the social media cannot replace true human communication. It seems that no matter how much people communicate through social media, they don’t find the true human connections that they require.

What’s more, it looks that excessive use of the internet also prevents people from acquiring the skills required to connect with others. Dr. Engelberg found that people who spent much time online scored lower on scales of emotional intelligence and social skills.

It is a shame that those who most need to learn how to communicate with others are the ones online the most.

Intuitively, that makes sense: if people find it a hassle to connect with others, they are less likely to engage in social interaction. Instead, they spend their time in solitary activities, such as surfing the web.

But in doing so, these people don’t have the opportunity to improve communication skills. They enter a downward spiral, where they spend increasing time online and become lonelier, but never feel at ease connecting with others.

To get out of this downward spiral, people need to turn their computers off, interact, and develop true human connections with others.

As Dr. Engleberg’s study displayed, this is critically important. Evermore so, in a world where people are spending increasingly more time using the internet.

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