More Ore Less Social

[nailit]

SOCIAL MEDIA
Is it really social?
Do we communicate more or less since the advent of social media?
My son has been here all afternoon and has had his nose in my tablet (presumably talking to his mates). On the other hand, I have been able to communicate with others on here and get some interaction that I might not otherwise have got?
Thoughts?

[murraymints]

we speak to a wider audience than that which we are socially involved with in the real world....you and I would never have come across each other in real life, yet here you are a cyber friend xx

[murraymints]

how is son these days ?

[nailit]

//how is son these days ? //
Don't know what the comparative word is minty but....
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

[nailit]

Think I might go and stick my head back up my ***.............

[murraymints]

lol xx

[trt]

If he wasn't there, why wouldn't you have been able to communicate with others on here?

[nailit]

EH?

[andy-hughes]

It's not possible to quantify the types and depths of cyber-relationships and traditional 'contact' relationships because they vary so much, not least in terms of the way they are conducted, and the information that is passed.

I communicate with precisely one friend regularly by e-mail, and we have never met, I don't do TwitFace.

[murraymints]

indeed Andy I consider myself quite close to some cyber friends even if we have not met..Nailit is one of them

[nailit]

//I communicate with precisely one friend regularly by e-mail, //
You got no regular friends andy?

[nailit]

//TwitFace. //
Some people only have twitface, whats ur problem?

[ummmm]

More social for me.

In real life I've always been very private but I have a handful of people I speak to on line who know more about me than my life long friends.

[andy-hughes]

nailit - ////I communicate with precisely one friend regularly by e-mail, //
You got no regular friends andy? //

Yes, I do, thank you.

[andy-hughes]

nailit - ////TwitFace. //
Some people only have twitface, whats ur problem? //

My only problems with it concern the obsessive devotion of some people to it. When I am in a cinema or theatre or concert, I am surrounded by people tapping away and staring at phones.

Unless you are an on-call doctor, or are awaiting some seriously important news,there is nothing that won't wait until after the show / film / gig.

This obsession with constant contact and interfacing is a backward step for society.

[jno]

that's the thing, nailit, andy has (I presume) real-world friends he communicates with face-to-face, or maybe by phone. That's what FB and Twitter have to some extent replaced. Instead of communicating one-to-one with people we know well, we are now able to do it with hundreds of people we don't know so well, sometimes in public as if you were standing on the high street with a loudhailer. I don't know if this s an advantage or not; but I do very little via FB and nothing on Twitter. I do use AB, though, which is sort of social media though it's anonymous.

[EDDIE51]

Am I the only one who seeing the word 'Ore' in the title assumed it was a question about the 'social impact' of increasing the level of mining?

[trt]

## This obsession with constant contact and interfacing is a backward step for society. ##

Bang on Andy, and it will only get worse!