A community is a group of people who are socially interdependent, who participate together in discussion and decision making, and who share certain practices that both define the community and are nurtured by it. Such a community is not quickly formed. It almost aways has a history and so is also a community of memory, defined in part by its past and its memory of the past. (p.333)
There are plenty of social media tool in today's society. In some words, these tools are somewhat of exceptions. But How Social Media Might Improve Personal Relationships ?
"Now that’s not to say that I think social media is killing personal relationships really. The only ones who can do that are ourselves if we slack off and stop making a decent effort just because social media is “easier.” In fact, I do think social media can do positive things in helping to build relationships — especially new ones.
Most importantly, I think social media tools have the ability to serve as a stepping stone to deeper and more personal relationships with those we want to build them with. For example, I’d known a particular freelance writing colleague for a while. And I knew she lived just a few towns over. We got to know each other mostly through blogs, but also kept in touch occasionally through Twitter. Because of that, we later met in person a couple of times. And at that point we really took the time to get to know each other better on a more personal level — discussing family, local shops, and such rather than solely work. In that case I like to think of social media as a sort of extended introduction."
Conclusion:
In my opinion, we had to admit that social media indeed decrease the time people talking to each other face to face. But we also have to admit that people communicate to each other more than before through the social media.
References:
http://socialimplications.com/is-social-media-killing-personal-relationships/
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