Social Media Isolation Among Students

Social Media create isolation among students mainly by process Nowadays, social media is very useful. However, people are lonely and the network is seductive (Turkle, 2012). This is the primary reason why most of the people are usually into social media. They use social media for they have beliefs that this will help them overcome the loneliness they felt. Social media is a medium for people to keep in contact with their friends and loved ones (Kholfsea, 2015). They usually use social media to be updated. We use social media in business, communication and in our daily life. There are researches about the social media and they are more focus on the positive effect of social media. This time in this research paper I will be focusing on the negative

On the other hand, there are researches that tell about the negative or the disadvantages of social media. Social media does not only create happiness to the users but also it creates loneliness. The more people used the Web, the lonelier and more depressed they felt (Konnlkova, 2013). They are more depressed especially when they have lots of papers to do and they tend not to do it on time. As a result they may feel depressed since they do not have done what must be done because of social media. They will feel lonelier while using social media too much because whenever they have problem they do not fix it instead divert their attention to the social media. The thing that they do not know about social media is that it only provides temporary escape from the reality. Many introverts and socially reclusive users place too much emphasis on virtual interaction and ignore the real world outside (Ta, 2014). There people who are more comfortable spending time with social media without socializing with other people. Social media encourage introverts to focus on virtual interaction instead to communicate with others personally. If that people feel more comfortable in virtual interaction then it will result to isolation in a way that

There are advantages and disadvantages in using social media. Some researches prove that social media create isolation among students. Since students are so curious then they are prone in engaging all their time to social media. Social media has changed the way people interact with each other (Nouldelman, 2015). Definitely, social media has changed the way people look how a conversation and a communication must go. It changes the mind-set of the users that it is better to communicate virtually and not personally. It develops the shyness of the individual person because they are no longer used to speak or talk with the person next to them. Others tend to communicate each other through social media. Social media also changes the norms. It feels like the norms nowadays are to communicate friends and other people through social media. But the most effective way in minimizing the isolation that some students are now suffering is the personal communication. Although, social media is a need, we must also consider the negative effect and not only the positive effect because every issue has advantages and disadvantages. The isolation that cause by the social media is not a direct effect but a process. It is a process that develops the isolation within the user. From a normal usage of social media until the students be more comfortable with being alone and with the social media itself. Being comfortable with the