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=== Face-to-Face Interactions Versus Social Media === Talking to someone face to face gives a person non-verbal cues, such as smiling, physical movement, and body positions that help people communicate. However, since [[social media]] lacks face-to-face communication, some individuals have adapted to blind communication when speaking online, seen through texting, commenting, and sending/receiving messages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How social media is changing the way people get to know one another {{!}} Penn State University |url=https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-social-media-changing-way-people-get-know-one-another/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=www.psu.edu |language=en}}</ref> By nature, humans are social. Social interaction is essential to survival. With recent advances in technology, such as the Internet, instant messaging, and smartphones, forms many channels and ways to interact with others. However, the human brain has evolved to adapt and keep up with this flood of mass communication.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Saniotis |first=Arthur |date=June 2009 |title=Future Brains: An Exploration of Human Evolution in the 21st Century and beyond |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/194675670900100303 |journal=World Futures Review |language=en |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=5β11 |doi=10.1177/194675670900100303 |issn=1946-7567|url-access=subscription }}</ref> While face-to-face communication is predicted to improve quality of life, Internet and social media communication did not.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Paul S. N. |last2=Leung |first2=Louis |last3=Lo |first3=Venhwei |last4=Xiong |first4=Chengyu |last5=Wu |first5=Tingjun |date=February 2011 |title=Internet Communication Versus Face-to-face Interaction in Quality of Life |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11205-010-9618-3 |journal=Social Indicators Research |language=en |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=375β389 |doi=10.1007/s11205-010-9618-3 |issn=0303-8300 |s2cid=144489320|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The Internet opens a new realm of possibilities in connecting with people around the globe with inherent factors in online communication that limit its ability to promote the same level of social satisfaction as traditional face-to-face communication. There are significant differences between online and face-to-face communication, leading to online communication being less emotionally satisfying and fulfilling than face-to-face communication. Social interaction on the internet and through social media platforms makes the interaction considerably difficult to distinguish nonverbal cues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Psychminds |date=2020-04-13 |title=Communication: Online vs. Face-to-Face Interactions |url=https://psychminds.com/communication-online-vs-face-to-face-interactions/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Psychminds |language=en-US}}</ref> Transitive memory development is also brought by face-to-face communication, which is more effective than online communication.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Griffith |first1=Terri L. |last2=Neale |first2=Margaret A. |date=2001 |title=8. Information processing in traditional, hybrid, and virtual teams: From nascent knowledge to transactive memory |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0191-3085(01)23009-3 |journal=Research in Organizational Behavior |volume=23 |pages=379β421 |doi=10.1016/s0191-3085(01)23009-3 |issn=0191-3085|url-access=subscription }}</ref> While technology has been able to bring communities and people closer together, humans have a responsibility to cultivate those connections and nurture them through old-fashioned face-to-face communication. As a human species, continuing to connect with others without hiding behind electronic screens is crucial.
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