Part 5: Does Social Media Increase Communication

written by 10418 Lee Seo Hyeon

I think people’s communication is decreasing as social media usage rises.

Also, with the advent of social media, it is true that many types of communication methods have emerged. Like Zoom, Google Meet or WhatsApp, where you can communicate with people with relatively few restrictions.

However, I don’t think social media increases the rate of communication. Because, since the application that I mentioned above, as people get used to conversations using apps, we felt uncomfortable talking to each other face to face. 

Furthermore, when we start to use social media, in addition, as social media exposes us to algorithms that gather our information, we gradually spend more time on social media, which can result in face-to-face conversation breaks in reality and addiction to social media. 

Therefore, I don’t think social media helps or increases our conversation frequency, but rather has an adverse effect on reducing the conversation frequency.

This is the fifth part in a six-part series that the Opinion department of the PRESS explore both sides.