This write-up is contributed by Sweta Chakraborty.

Socially connected, but ideally not?

  There are certain times when you require a real friend who can support you during days. It would help if you had ever required mental support while going through a trauma or even maybe a crisis. The modern era demands your time as you might be busy connecting with friends on social media. There are specific pros and cons to the fact. But, let’s see the point in a much more vivid and detailed way.

Is social media a boon?

Sunita is a single child brought up in a nuclear family. She is connected to her school and college mates. Sunita has been married abroad, and the only connections she has right now are her colleagues and peers. She is socially well known for her qualities and is quite a popular character as she can mingle with people of any caliber. Sunita misses her old association, and she is deliberately reconnecting with them. She thanks technology and the facilities of communicating through digital media. She found all her classmates and regularly interacted through all sorts of communication channels. She has to spend the least amount of money to be in touch with all. Social media is a boon to communication for people who love connecting with friends, families, and relations.

Is social media a killer of all relations?

A family of three – mom, dad, and a child are all busy over the phone. They are all concerned about their privacy and have individual phones and chat through different windows. They communicate by phone and the result is that they talk lesser. There used to be a time when landlines united the families but mobiles rightly divided the families. They wish themselves on special days and pass exceptional communication and other messages through mobile. They hardly do the talking but are grotesquely involved in messaging each other. Well, could this condition be defined as prisoners of the phone?

Is it your personality that matters?

Technology makes society a progressive one. Especially the advent of social media sites has made it even easier. Gone are the days when people used to spend a huge chunk of money only on their friends living in various corners of the world. There is a revolution in terms of communication that could be digitally advanced. But, to keep in relation with the rest of the world depends on you hugely. You mustn’t be a great socialite to be in touch with your vast number of friends. You can just send a message by digital means and be in their good books.

Extrovert or Introvert?

Depending on the nature of a person, he could be defined as an extrovert or even an introvert. Interacting with people, speaking to them, and adjusting to any situation requires, smartness and guts and he is only out of exposure. The more a person interacts with people, the more he becomes people-friendly. Now, the presence of social media over extrovert people must not have a great significance as they are already comfortable mingling with people. The only fact that remains is that sometimes introverted people start building their list in a friend’s database. You might have several friends on your list, but how many do you call up? How many people are you connected to from your heart or maybe give you a call to know your whereabouts?

Making everything digital:

The media is facilitated so that you can remember your friend’s birthday from the reminder notes. You can follow his everyday activities and be much more in touch with him if he shares his actions. In this case, you are in touch with your dear ones and can follow him without shedding a penny from your pocket. Imagine a growing kid having over 800 friends on his friend list, and he might be interacting virtually with many. But, he might know a few friends intimately as they might be staying geographically apart. There is an advantage to the situation as your child might have the chance to learn or interact with his friends without even traveling. Long before the digital media took its place, there used to be pen friends. The concept was about making friends with another person in a different country. These could be used to exchange of mail and pictures, and finally, the two people met up and discovered each other.  Basically, You are maintaining communication but it’s a penny less affair. The phone might have given you a wider area of comfort but might have snatched your freedom to a worry-free life in some instances.

In most cases today, whenever a person is connected to numerous persons on social media, he might be familiar but lack the worth of actual friendship. Still, social media is a necessity and it touched many of us virtually, whereas physical meeting is never a possibility. It is for us to decide whether are fully indulge in technocratic babble or make use neither of it as required so that we improve our contact nor at the cost of relationship.

Sweta Chakraborty is an Amazon author and her books are being sold on the National and International platform. She is a travel freak and pens down her experience in her blog, and also some web magazines. Her travel writing has been admired and loved by those who are travel freaks. Apart from these she writes articles in the genre of Relationship, Education, Women’s rights and Recipes. She would love to hear your feedback on her articles, and would bring some more informative pieces for your interest.