Topic > The social influence of Facebook - 1286

“In a world consumed by increasingly new ways of socializing, we have fewer and fewer real societies (Marche, 2012)”. The reality is that the more we connect through social networks and media, the more alone we feel. We live in a society where the norm is to sit in a room full of people and entertain ourselves on our phones or our labs. It's more important to respond to an email than pick up the phone and make a call. We have become much less affable to each other and communication is missing like a hole. Your children need to know what it's like to look at their parents' faces without seeing them on the phone while watching videos on Facebook, because that feeling doesn't give the child a sense of love and care, it gives them the feeling of being unwanted and undesirable. So it creates children who go out and repeat the same cycle of not being physically connected and only connected