Skip to main content

HOW PEOPLE PORTRAY THEMSELVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND HOW THIS AFFECTS FRIENDSHIP


HOW PEOPLE PORTRAY THEMSELVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA 
AND HOW THIS AFFECTS FRIENDSHIP

Written by: Fernanda Araya



Technology is helping people with making relationships without the need for physical contact; in many ways, people get benefits from the use of social media. One of the benefits would be “For shy people and those seeking new friends, social networking provides an easy way to make the first overture of friendship. By simply clicking the “add friend” button, people can convey that they’re interested in getting to know someone, reducing a traditional barrier to friendship.” (Villines, 2012, para 5). But social media also allows us to create two versions of ourselves and sometimes our online profile is an upgraded version of who we are. This difference might affect friendship in the long term since people might start questioning which one is the real you. This type of pressure can be easily perceived when users begin “editing, censoring, and embellishing the truth […] and online personalities are created, often for the purpose of audience enjoyment.” (Lotus823, 2017) 
In 2030, would it be that the way we portray our self on social media affects our long-term friendship?
In the following posts, we’ll be addressing this matter with topics such as:
1.    Our online identities in social media and friendship in 2030.
2.    Social media and anxious generations in 2030.
3.    Would social media be the only way to meet friends in 2030?
4.   In 2030: How social media might affect friendship.



References

Lotus823. (2017). Social Media Personas | Reality vs. Online Identities. Retrieved from https://lotus823.com/social-media-personas-reality-vs-online-identities/

Villines, Z. (2012). How social Networking changes friendships. Retrieved from https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/how-social-networking-changes-friendship-1123127

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WOULD SOCIAL MEDIA THE ONLY WAY TO MEET FRIENDS IN 2030?

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. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

SOCIAL SKILLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS IMPACTS ON FRIENDSHIPS 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 ...
1 comment
Read more