How Social Media Will Change Friendship in 2030

SOCIAL SKILLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND IMPACTS ON FRIENDSHIPS IN 2030 Written by: Valéria Santos On previous posts, we’ve discussed about some challenges of interpersonal communication on social media such as the lack of non-verbal cues and how this affects the forming of relationships, we’ve made connections between the lack of cues on social media and conflicts, discussed empathy and how it affects adjusting behaviour and talked about how social media can help more introverted people interact and make friends online. On this post, we will explore how social media affects our social skills and impacts the forming of meaningful friendship. We believe that social media is a very popular and convenient means of communicating and interacting with other people. However, when we think of the quality and how meaningful the connections we make are, we see that something is being left out.   Hanke (2018) suggests that social media “ changes our ability to interact with

Would social media the only way to meet friends in 2030? Written by Fernanda Araya. Nowadays, we make friends in the real world and on social media, but it seems that in the future, this trend might change. One of the biggest social media platforms predicts that “Facebook will have 5 billion users by 2030” (Shah, 2016). This prediction might indicate that future generations would prefer virtual connections rather than real ones. We can assume that they would create powerful campaigns to promote virtual connections in the year 2030. Social media left one key component out related to friendship, which is trust, and according to Botsman, trust is “the glue that holds society together” (Botsman, 2017). So, according to this information, we don’t know how these relationships are going to prevail with time. It might be that future generations will have superficial relationships, and they probably might value other elements in friendship, changing the concept altogether.

Social Media and Friendships effects on education  Written by Shamninder Sahota By 2030, the evolution of social media and the availability of all content on the internet would also effect the education system. As everyone would be on social media, the predictions are that the Colleges would close due to the large fees and an increase burden on our youth. Looking at numbers from Apple ITunesU enrollment of over 1 billion students, alone can tell us how the trends will change in the future. (Frey, 2013) If our children don’t get to colleges and form online learning, it would impact their friendships as they would not have the opportunity to meet their peers in the community and relying on Social Media friends that they can have in another part of the world, which in turn would cause very little to no human interface. They would be replaced with, “Social structures are changing and the value of relationships built in college, while often quite valuable, are equally often

    Lack of empathy in Friendship Written by Shamninder Sahota Would online conversations take over our sense of empathy towards people? Well, lacking physical contact and seeing people in real life can cause chaos in understanding words. In 2030 as we feel, that a lot would be on social media and human interface would decline. “Sherry Turkle, social psychologist and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self , in her book  Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age  on how flight from conversation is undermining our relationships, creativity, and productivity, Turkle argues that all the instant messages, texts and minimally effortful “likes” and asynchronous communications are diminishing people’s capacity for empathy and ability to communicate in real life situations. ”( Mann , 2017) . This analogy would become true as ghosting someone from the internet world is easy and ending a relationship sheer through a text is also inconsiderate towards

Bullies or Friends?  Written by Shamninder Sahota Friendships come with all kinds of bullying as well. Some soft tone humors, others which go really bad leading in hate crimes as we all hear on the news so many times. In 2030, bullying can and will become an issue, as we all would be on social media and impacting each other’s life would become even more easy.  Cyber bullying is a whole new prospective, it nor only involves the use of unkind words against someone on a social media platform but also involves sending out viruses, or sharing someone’s private information without consent etc. ( CCOHS, 2018 ) As computers as becoming a part of every medium like our refrigerators, our digital security cameras, stoves etc., remember all of them can be hacked by a tech genius living in the other part of the world (Diaz, 2017). As the technology advances, people would be more trained in Technology as well, therefore, the ability of them becoming bullies is going to be high as well. 

Braggers or Loners, Kinds of Friendship in 2030 Written By Shamninder Sahota As of some great who said we choose our friends while family happens to us, this statement is true. But the trends in our society today have become of that the family is all we confide in mostly. Our time that we have is currently divided into work and the rest on Social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the likes. Everyone seems to be living on their phones at all time.  In 2030, the generation would so be addicted to social media, I could so be a generation which is so lonely at the same time it has so many more followers. We can’t only blame the gadgets, but the work loads are equally to blame. Everyone posts about where they travelled or where they ate.  All the brag on social media sometimes can cause jealousy and competition amongst peers which can further the thought of isolation (Delgado, 2019). As we can all predict, by 2030 every generation is going to be