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Are students maturing without adequate social skills? Apparentlysocial scientists and psychologists have had enough time to research behaviorsof young people using social media to determine that the face (or that would belack of face) of social contact is changing in our world.
Students who grow up with social media tools and participatein continuous digital multi-tasking are missing important social skills. Thinkabout it - you can’t learn to “read” a person’s expression if all you see arewacko photos on Facebook and short text messages and Tweets.
Are the components that make us human changing? StanfordUniversity surveyed over 3,000 American girls, ages 8-12, and found that thosewho spent the most time using digital devices had the most difficulty withsocial interaction.
So what would a society be like if people communicateddigitally, rather than face-to-face? I see a YA trilogy in the making.
