What is the value of social media?

We all know it distracts us, takes us away from family and friends, where our only connection is maybe a photograph that could have been shared in person? Especially sites like this, where none of those characteristics exist, like seeing your family and friends? It feels as social media creates more isolation and loneliness than a smile in person while people stare into a screen to tell a story they could have in voice.

What gives?

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

It is a tool to aid conventional communication. Not a replacement for it. As soon as it impedes real life it should be discarded.

awildsheepschase

@SunshineGirl You're practical in thought and I agree with you. Yet I see it as a symbol for how people don't talk in real life and more than we know impedes what we hope from life.

That's just my take.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@awildsheepschase Although perhaps it sometimes gives a louder voice to those who would otherwise have been excluded from real life.

awildsheepschase

@SunshineGirl Yes I know that value, like I would never have been able to talk with you... And in theory, thinking of culture and movements, even though they did arise earlier largely in history they can move on a dime these days (right or wrong)