Negative Effects Of The web On Human Connection

Since the internet has become common, there has been a contention about its ramifications on social wellbeing.

On one hand are those who say that social media and the internet has made it possible for people to improve their social lives more than ever before. On the other side fence are those who say that , with all the time spent surfingthe internet, people have become progressively more excluded from others, and are getting an inadequate amount of real human interactions.

Science is now getting its say.

Research done through the Stockholm school of Economics looked into the association between peoples’ internet use and their performance on different measures of social wellbeing, such as emotional wellbeing and work life balance.

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

This evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that the social media can’t take the place of real human interactions. It seems that no matter how much people connect online, they don’t find the real human connections that they demand.

Moreover, it looks that excessive internet use also prevents people from developing the skills essential to communicate with others. Dr. Engelberg discovered that people who spent much time online had lower scores on scales of emotional intelligence and social skills.

It is a shame that the people who most need to learn how to connect with others are those using the internet the most.

Intuitively, however, it makes sense: if people find it a hassle to communicate with others, they are much less enclined to engage in social interaction. Instead, they spend their time in solitary activities, like surfing the web.

But in doing so, these people don’t have the opportunity to improve communication skills. They’ve entered a downhill slide, where they spend increasing time online and become lonelier, but never feel comfortable interacting with others.

To escape this downward cycle, people need to turn their computers off, socialize, and create real human relationships with others.

As Dr. Engleberg’s study revealed, this is critical. Evermore so, in a world where people are spending increasing time using the internet.

To find out more about how to improve communication skills check out Social Fluency’s seven essential skills at http://www.socialfluency.com/play/skills.
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