Sunday, October 28, 2012

2. Extra Credit: The transition of Social Interactions

Article: Are You A Psychopath If You Don't Have A Facebook Account? We Don't Think So, from week of 9/17

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/facebook-psychopath_n_1752993.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

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Humans are evolving because of protocols that they create, but the control structure of categorization has fallen behind. So many people are fighting the change that new alternatives to past activities are seen as unhealthy. For example a statement in the article says that face-to-face meeting is actual socialization is actual socialization while meeting and talking through social sites is considerate a passive unhealthy relationship. While I personally believe that face-to-face interaction are much more healthy, the idea that new ways of interactions are instantly regarded as unhealthy shows that people are not willing to accept change. Many people are meeting and socializing physically with just as many if not more people on a daily basis then their ancestors ever did because of new transportation and different types of work. On top of this physical interaction these people also interact with more people on the Internet. I think that a major problem isn’t that they aren’t socializing with people face-to-face, it is that each interaction is short and the relationship is not well defined. There is too much of an illusion that the people we interact with online are more important than the physical interactions. A simple chat on Facebook could be regarded as a successful social interaction and a true connection with that person so we no longer feel the need to physically interact any longer. Humans haven’t become completely used to the idea that a simple text message isn’t the same as a physical hello and shake of hands. As time goes on and everyone is connected through phones and the internet I think that people will start to realize that more is gotten out of physical interaction that from messaging. We are currently in a transition time and we haven’t had time to properly become used to the new interaction tools that technology has given us.

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