Social Media Relationships vs IRL realtionships

Social Media is overwhelming, especially in this day and age where social media greatly influences the fate of the world itself. Social media has the ability to quickly connect different people from diffferent parts of the world, making them friends even if they haven’t seen each other physically yet. This seems amazing at first galnce, but let us consider some of the dangerous aspects of this and why interacting in real lifeis better for you, socially speaking.

 

A lot of people shares what kind of person they are on the internet, but others chose to remain anonymous. Let us first focus on people belonging to the former category.

 

By sharing basic information about yourself, you’re practically telling the world about you personal views and preferences. But not everyone may agree with you, and other people, usually those with nothing better to do, can harrass you for not having the same perspectives as they do. People are different, but there are those that just enjoys messing with people different than them simply because they hate their guts.

 

As for people belonging to the latter category, most of them chose to remain anonymous because they simply don’t want to get too personaly with internet dwellers they don’t even know. But the biggest problem is that thses kind of people can actually pretend to be someone they’re not and that its difficult to tell whether or not they are the person that they reveal in social media. These people can potentially trick you to reveal your dirty secrets and use them to sabotage your social life. But a rare breed f these people can trick you to send them money by promising you something that they don’t even plan on giving you.

 

But you can save yourself from this hassle by just interacting with people physically. You can be honest easily, and lies can easily be detected. And besides, you need to actually know someone personally and meet them for real in order to become true fri

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