Social Media and How It Affect Us

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The insane role that social media now plays in our life’s is shifting our focus on external parts of our relationships, which is causing people to be lonely and disconnected from others. While the usage of technology really depends on whether or not it is enhancing or making our lives worse, social show the negative effects on our relationships. Loneliness is only one of the sources of our problems and there are more that social media are causing. We spend so much time staring at our phones or laptops, and being so worried about our images, we have been forgotten about building real relationships with other people. The thing that has been enhancing and improving our everyday life is now making us become ill, and there is just something ironic about that. Social Media affects our relationship in how real and genuine our relationships can be and in many other ways, such a loneliness.

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