SOCIAL NETWORK HELP DEVELOP HUMAN RELATION

SOCIAL NETWORK HELP DEVELOP HUMAN RELATION

Contre: Hello everyone and welcome to our daily debate show. Today the topic is social networks and human relation. 

Over the last few years, social networks have taken a significant place in our society but also in your relation with others. The emergence of social networks has changed our society and our way of communicating. Indeed, social networks now have a growing place in the way we communicate. I really feel that social they are very practical and have many advantages, in particular with regard to the help they give us to develop human relation. 

First of all, social networks allow us to keep in touch with our loved ones. If, for example, our family does not live in the surrounding area or if we do not have the opportunity to travel to see them, social networks allow us to communicate with them. Social networks do not set us any barriers, it is indeed possible to communicate with the whole world. Without this essential way of communication, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for us to communicate with a family member who lives on the other side of the world, for instance. Social networks have changed the scope of our relationships. A few years ago, we could only communicate with loved ones near home but today we can get in touch with the whole world. 

Pour: I see what you mean but do not forget that according to some experts, networking and new technologies have a negative effect on family structure. This study reveals that social networks have replaced the intimate relationships that used to take place within families. Other researchers believe that these new technologies hinder children’s ability to develop social skills and maintain interpersonal relationships. Therefore family activities are being replaced by hours of surfing on the internet and, as a result, families no longer enjoy the special bond that unites them. Everyone uses social networks to chat with everyone but no longer seeks to develop the family relationship with those around them. 

It's really annoying and sad to see couples or families at restaurants spending their time on social networks instead of enjoying the moment. My feeling is that social networks isolates users if you use social media all day long, you don’t go outside your home and you can’t be able to have any physical contact with humans.  

Pour: I don’t think you are right about that. Personally, I think it’s the opposite. Cystic Fibrosis Trust study discovered that one in 10 people using social media meets best friends online. which shows that social networks make it possible to discover people that we would not have met daily. This helps build stronger relationships with people around the world. This statistic shows that a lot of people are attached to these relationships, which allows them to expand their circle of friends and meet new people. Moreover social networks enable users to face their shyness, by asking for example more easily, the names of their interlocutors or their email address for instance. So it makes the discussions easier to start and allows many users to have a conversation with people they would never talk to on the street. People feel more confident , they can indeed show themselves in their best light. 

Pour: Yes, you are absolutely right. In my opinion, social networks allow you to find lost relationships, former love partners, once-loved classmates and even distant relatives. Each social network offers the possibility to multiply relationships, to develop new ones, to fantasize about individuals who accept our requests for friendship. Some find love. Others find distant friends. With the appearance of different dating sites, it is possible to make more intimate and stronger encounters than friendships. The users of dating sites are looking for human relationships, which you can also find on social networks. This allow a development of human relations. 

Contre : Excuse me but I think you are making mistakes on some points. Let me just ask you a question: Are friends on social networks real friends? I don't think so, and I am sure you also think like me. Not all of our friends on Snapchat, for instance, are our real friends. Most of the time they are just followers, like Instagram prefers calling them, or simply  acquaintances or strangers. People lock themselves behind social media and can only see a false reality, they give the image they want to give. So it can be wrong, and it is mostly what happened. People try to be what they want to be or what they cannot be, the live on a fake world. So people create false relationships with other people on these networks, we can say that they are not human relationships but rather false relationships. A study from the University of Chicago in 2012 shows that the new generation find it harder to live without social networks such as Twitter than to live without eating or smoking. In addition, there are a lot of clinics specializing in technological addiction that think that social networks are bad for human relationships. On twitter, we see an evolution of a feeling of hatred between people. Instead of creating social relationships, different communities clash. It isn’t sound relationships that are established.

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