ARE TEENAGERS LESS SOCIABLE?

Some people say that teenagers are losing social abilities. They think that they are less sociable than before because they're losing face-to-face contact. but, why do they say that?

First of all, everybody knows that nowadays we're living in a virtual world. Moreover, those who usually use Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp call it "life 2.0" because they spend more time there than in real life or "life 1.0". Secondly, social networking sites are making it easier to communicate with other people via Internet than face-to-face. Lastly, teenagers say that it's faster and more comfortable to talk with a mobile phone or texting someone than doing it face-to-face. What's more, their social lives are based on that.

In conclusion, from my point of view that's true. I agree with that and I think we're becoming less sociable, but I think that it isn't that bad, maybe because I'm a teenager.

Face-to-face now

Nowadays, the internet and social networks help us to keep contact with friends all around the world. This is quite useful and easy, but is it decreasing our face-to-face social abilities? Are young people having social lives only trough a screen?

In my opinion, face-to-face social life has not disappeared yet, we still meet our friends to chat for a while and have fun. Despite this, I’ve noticed that this way of socializing is becoming endangered. Facebook is now our system to determine our meeting place, then, once back home, we chat again through Facebook, and some of us keep tuned to social networks through our smartphones during our meetings. We’re online most of the times.

Relationships are also changing, we flirt through social networks, where things we post are public, which’s quite worrying. It’s not only a way to begin a relationship, but also to finish it, now we just send a message to split up. I think it’s a shame.

Another worrying topic is that we’re more open through a screen, we say things that perhaps face-to-face we wouldn’t say. Perhaps we’re not conscious enough of what we’re saying or the consequences of what we say.

To sum up, face-to-face contact has not disappeared yet but it’s quite endangered. The internet and social networks are changing our lives drastically.  We should think a little more about what we say through the internet.  To conclude, in my opinion, the internet and social networks are useful and may lead us to a positive change, but we should try to keep face-to-face contact, because we cannot compare having a good time with your friends and spending your time in front of a computer.

Face-to-face interaction

Nowadays, teenagers are believed to be losing social interaction with other people, and this is usually caused by the effect of new technologies in their lives.

In my opinion, teenagers are addicted to social networks. With them, they don’t need to go out to talk with people and they usually stay home all day with their computer. It’s evident that this is causing a loss of face-to-face interaction. When they go out, they take their mobile phones with them and use it to talk with other people. This way, they don’t keep real social relationships, they only have virtual conversations. Consequently, teenagers lose social abilities and this, eventually, will create a new society without human contact. Human being’s nature is to be social, and if the face-to-face interaction decreases, we will be less human, and consequently, less happy. To avoid this, we should use social networks with moderation and we have to continue keeping real conversations with other people. It’s the only way to be happy, keeping close relationships with other humans. Today it only affects teenagers, but when these teenagers grow up, they will miss this loss of social abilities.

To sum up, we have to keep social interaction in order to create a happy society, so we should try to increase teenager’s face-to-face conversations and relationships.

TODAY'S TEENAGERS ARE LOSING FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION AND SOCIAL ABILITIES

Nowadays, mobile phones and social networks are taking the place of face-to-face interaction. Teenagers are getting used to having online friends and they are looking at the computer's screen all day. I think they should go out to the street and have a real social life.

As I see it, people who are always sitting in front of a computer do not have a real social life. They talk with many people via internet, chats or whatever, but do they have real friends? I don't think so. You have to have personal relationships to actually know the person. What if someone lies to you and tells you he is a teenager and he's a rappist, for example? I prefer to see a person face to face rather than see a photo. Moreover, I think it's funnier to meet a person, talk about your things, see the reaction they have when you tell them something interesting, etc. , than talk to a machine.

To sum up, not only teenagers but everybody is losing social abilities, but it would be better to switch off the computer and go out to interact with other people.

FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION

Nowadays teenagers are losing face-to-face interaction and social abilities, because they are used to being all day long in front of their computers or playing videogames, instead of practising sports or being outside with friends.

I think that this situation must stop, because in the future they are not going to be capable of working with collegues, since they don't know how to comunicate with other people. Those teenagers don't feel comfortable being with other people or they don't know what to say or even how. This situation has increased since every teenager has his/her own computer, because they are playing, surfing... and chatting all day. The problem is that they feel more comfortable chatting than talking face-to-face. If this situation continues, in the future people won't comunicate, meet... face-to-face, they will chat or make videocalls.

In conclusion. if we permit this situation, in the future everybody will be in their rooms with a computer talking with a friend that maybe lives next door instead of going to his/her house to be with him/her and making Internet friends, because they only know how to make friends on the Internet and not face-to-face.