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The Positive Impact of Social Media on Human Interpersonal Relationship; Social Media Enhances Human Communication
Interpersonal relationships act as a pivotal element in societal associations, both presently and within the past periods. Humans are naturally sociable beings and therefore relationships act as a very significant aspect in any communal setting. Healthy relations align to normal communication patterns, beginning and ending with a sender. As messages are relayed to a recipient, responses have to be given back for the process to be viewed as complete. However, interpersonal relationships do not entirely align to this linear pattern as noted between individuals limited by socializing incapacities. A good example of such limitations can be noted within introverted individuals who exhibit communication difficulties especially in the presence of many individuals (Chan 84). Following this, such individuals are highly incapable of conveying various issues and consequently have very few friends. As evidenced by research investigations, introduction of the internet and social media tools like Facebook and Twitter has enhanced interpersonal communication.
Communication as earlier identified is only achieved when feedback is relayed back to the source. Feedback is usually governed by the immediacy factor as noted in real-time and delayed communication. Individuals inhibited in interpersonal communication, mostly in-person associations, tend to affect the feedback aspect because of anxiety and thus the incapability on one to express various ideas. Subsequently, such individuals prefer avoiding such associations thus inhibiting interpersonal relations. With the internet, in-person communication is substituted with asynchronous online messaging through chat rooms, electronic mails, instant messaging, newsrooms and other computer-related media (Chan 84). The delayed nature of social communication permits affected individuals to have enough time for preparing good responses devoid any form of pressure. Additionally, social attempts needed for effectual in-person communication are not obligatory in social media and therefore one is only required to focus on the written information.
With the exclusion of the in-person associations, affected individuals are able to be psychologically comfortable for the communication purposes. In fact, it even becomes easier to divulge confidential information by eliminating expression anxieties. This enhances the creation and preservation of significant relations between introverts and other community members. Some individuals have opposed social media with the view that it lessens the ability of ‘real’ relations with the virtual nature of association (Chan 85). Most individuals actually need the internet and computers for the given association and this creates a high level of remoteness. Friends created in such sites are in actuality intangible and thus are only termed as virtual associates. Although the given position is true, it is good to note that individuals incapable of socializing are initially quite lonely and prefer isolation from crowded settings. Additionally, with most individuals being introverts, a high pre-eminence is also accorded to real associations.
Therefore, arguing that social media imparts remoteness within an individual’s lifestyle acts as an obsolete position since the same state is present even without the inclusion of social media (Chan 85). In fact, virtual associations do not enhance the isolation factor but rather lessen through the creation of intangible associations that have positively led to diminished solitude and dejection instances within an affected populace. Additionally, as introverts create online associations leading to trusting relations that allow for the sharing of personal issues, it then becomes easy for virtual friends to meet having created a level of recognition between them. Note that, through technological progressions, social media associations have acquired a pragmatic aspect when contrasted with initial internet communication processes that were quite limited. For instance, emails acted as the initial communications tools with the introduction of the internet and this only permitted written information whose appeal depended on the ability of an individual to express various ideas and emotions through descriptive texts.
Recent social media have addressed the given problem through the inclusion of emoticons that are able to communicate various sentiments like happiness, sorrow, awe, and indifference amongst others. Facebook has incorporated the ability of a user to share with other individuals photographs that enhance the connection process with the provision of visual cues (Chan 85). This allows for an informed approach to socialization and consequently a level of pragmatism in the interpersonal associations created. Such features have enhanced information personalization in social communication. Cues provided in such associations are inadequate when contrasted with in-person communication but it is good to note that superior refinements are largely added to the social media for a more realistic form of communication. A good example is noted with the teleconferencing approach in allowing visual and audio contact through the voice over internet protocol (VoiP).
Although such inclusions have been presented by the opposing view for the creation of more pragmatic associations, it is evident that it acts as a retrogressive approach since it incorporates the in-person element and this permits for the inclusion of negative in-person reactions like anxiety. Therefore, instead of acting as a process alleviation factor, it often leads to unconstructive responses from introverts, inhibiting the desired interpersonal associations (Chan 88). It is therefore evident that social media is quite helpful in interpersonal relations especially amongst introverted individuals in creating base associations that ultimately flourish into healthy associations within the correct settings.
Works Cited
Chan, Michael. Shyness, sociability, and the role of the media synchronicity in the use of computer-mediated communication for interpersonal communication. Asian Journal of Social Psychology 14 (2011): 84-90.
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