Social Media, Less Social?

Social Media is supposed to increase the way people communicate but has this technology backfired? People are still communicating though Facebook, Twitter, and even Myspace but are people actually socializing? To socialize is to associate or mingle with others. Would one really say that typing on the computer or through a mobile device can be considered as mingling with others. Since the "social" media has become popular it has allowed people to communicate to others without any effort.

Has this evolving technology tricked people into thinking that they are actually socializing just because they put the word social in the name. How has this social media convinced many people that it is okay to communicate solely through the internet. There are people who will still pick up a phone, send a letter through the post office, and meet up in person to talk but this will be even less popular if we continue to use social media as a primary use to communicate. This new social media really is not that social.