Is The web Killing Social Skills?

Since the internet became the standard, there has been a discussion about its ramifications on social wellbeing.

There are two groups involved in the debate about internet use. The first group are those who claim that , with social media sites like Facebook, the internet has enabled the public to enrichen their social lives than before. The second group are those who claim that the increased time the public spent bouncing around on the web have become increasingly cut off from others, and are getting an insufficient amount of actual human communication.

Science is now beginning to have its say.

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

Dr. Elizabeth Engleberg, lead author in the study, discovered that people with who had high internet use were markedly more lonesome and had poorer work life balance than those with a smaller amount of internet use.

This results strongly proves the opinion that the internet can’t take the place of actual socialization. It seems that no matter how much people interact through social media, they do not find the actual human connections that they need.

Also, it looks that too much internet use also keeps people from acquiring the skills necessary to interact with others. Dr. Engelberg realized that people who spent a lot of time online performed worse on scales of emotional intelligence and social skills.

It is a tragedy that the people who most need to learn how to interact with others are the ones online the most.

Intuitively, that makes sense: if people have difficulty connecting with others, they are less likely to take part in social interaction. Instead, they spend their time in solitary activities, such as surfing the web.

But by doing so, these people don’t have the possiblity to improve their communication skills. They enter a downhill slide, where they spend more and more time online and become lonelier, but never feel at ease connecting with others.

To get out of this downward slide, people need to turn their computers off, socialize, and develop actual human relationships with others.

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

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