Socially imparted anti-social behavior

         Today social media is not what it used to be. Communication in the past was simple and meaningful. In last few years internet is exploded with mass socializing amongst users in form of Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, dating sites etc. These social media sites have become minute by minute necessities for millions of people. We meet people online, listen about their lives, share ours, imparting a sense of relief for meeting friends with same interests as ours. But the drawback is that it is affecting the psychology of humans.

         People are more dependent on electronics and less dependent on other human interactions. They may have an account on Instagram with a thousand followers but when they shut it down they feel like they don’t have any friend.

Now our digital lives are more important than the real ones. It’s undeniable.                We stay hooked to social media for hours. Social media can be beneficial in a number of ways but the way people are becoming addicted to it, it is turning teenagers into narcissist and young adults into anti socials. It may also lead to anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders. Antisocial behavior is a mental disorder which arises as a pattern of behavior or psychological symptoms that impact multiple areas of life.

Human nature craves for other human interaction, and that need cannot be replaced with technology.

         Social media are websites making us more antisocial. Their slogan is socialization but it takes real life away. Being so addictive to social media when we come out of our core and look around we feel everyone at a distance making it extremely difficult to approach them, be it our relatives or other members in society. It’s like living a dilemma from which there’s no coming back.

It starts affecting lives of the people making them aggressive and irritable leading to physical assault. Then it affects their perception making it difficult for them to feel empathy towards others. It have so much emotional damaging effect that it often leads to poor and abusive relationships with others and are most likely to abuse or neglect their children.

       The impersonal communication that arise from technology and social media results in arguments, opinions, crude remarks because they are not communicating face to face. People feel that they can voice their opinion without the consent of how the other person will interpret the message or how much it will affect them. This somehow leads to lower esteem.

It is healthy and vital to focus on how to be social and not how to do social. The future of social networking seems very promising but still it has to deal with the social concerns associated with it. As Ferris Mueller puts it, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”.