Has Social Media Impaired or Enhanced Human Interaction?

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I was born in an era where technology developed and evolved at a tremendous pace. It grew exponentially every year. As a child, I used my grandpa's Sony 2-Band portable radio for hours on end, only to listen to a single song. Communicating with my cousin and best friend was difficult since we didn’t have cell phones nor did we attend school together so we sent each other letters. Now, I have an iPhone with 5,000 songs downloaded and I am now up to date with my best friends and cousin through Facebook, Twitter updates, and brief text messages. The built up anticipation to receive my weekly letters and the surreal bliss I feel when the song I yearned to listen to does play is something that the new iPad mini or Samsung Galaxy S3 cannot even compare to. Although the Internet and mobile technology is convenient, the influence of social media notably impairs our capacity of human connections and relationships a lot more than enhancing it. Although I believe that the World Wide Web has hindered human interaction, the perks of technology are somewhat efficient and useful. The internet allows you stay in contact and be aware of your acquaintances, ex-coworkers, and old friends. Also even to meeting a friend of a friend you never had the chance to greet. You can become interconnected with your whole school; even your whole town in a way and rekindle lost relationships. Although technology has provided us some measure of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us to maintain long-distance relationships that would have probably went haywire, the fact remains that we are slowly ruining the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings. In conclusion, technology is ruining the quality of human interaction. It seems to go unnoticed and trivial that technology is discretely ruining the meaningfulness and importance of human

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