This Ad appeared during the superbowl. This is just pushing home the fact of the idea that people need social media to interact. Instead of a letter or a phone call, the guy in the clip relies on Facebook for his information on how the date went.
To expand on this idea of relationships revolving around facebook and social media is mind boggling. Me personally, I have a hard time understanding that people can form relastionships without personal one on one interaction. But because of social media people can now. For instance, Skype, facebook chat, and other online medias allow people to connect one on one online. cutting out the ideas of going on real live dates and instead going on online skype dates.
All this to say is that things are changing and people have two choices, to go with the changing times or just ignore what is going on and stay in the electronic "stone age".
I think that a lot of people connect through electonical devices TOO much now. I'm like you,I need that one-on-one. I guess that's why I don't consider Facebook a "real" place because my "real" friends and i just pick up the phone or meet-up. I still kick it old school.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the commercial was sweet. Their relationship will probably end up suffering because of facebook though. I mean he is already facebook stalking her right after their first date. Her next post will probably be: Remember my great first date? Yeah, total psycho...
ReplyDeleteAs we learned in Interpersonal, nothing compares to the face-to-face communication. There are sooo many more cues that we can pick up and share during "real" interaction that no technology can replace (yet?).
ReplyDeleteHowever, these technologies are extremely important in my life. Since I am from another country and have lived in a few different places, the only way I can keep in touch with some people I care about is through these media. I have sustained and even enhanced relationships through these online communication tools that I would not have been able to do if they were not around.
I would much rather a face-to-face interaction, but it is very possible to get just enough out of these other media to maintain real relationships.
But in any other case, "real" interaction should be preferred, and that preference seems to be diminishing.
I think your post and this discussion raise the possibility that each of us needs to find a balance between our face-to-face and our internet-mediated social relationships. Clearly, we can't successfully live in the stone age, but yet we also can't live well if we stay on our bed and only interact with people through our computers. How do we negotiate the balance? It adds a new complexity to relationships, too, since different people feel more comfortable having more or less of the relationship taking place online--so you have to find that compatibility or it will mess up a friendship or romance.
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