- Technology affects people's social skills through increased social media use and different ways of interpreting messages online versus in person. As social media and technology become more widely used and integrated into society, people are growing up with different social experiences and may struggle with in-person interactions. How people communicate is constantly changing with more options for online interactions that avoid face-to-face conversations. This raises questions about how to further develop social skills beyond social media and what risks are associated with excessive social media use.

1. ISSUE PRESENTATION
How technology Affects Peoples Social Skills

2. Issue Defined: What’s the matter
- Technology affects which ways people use social media
- How we intercept and perceive messages through social media is differently than face-to-
face interactions
Relevance: It’s is as current as tomorrows latest piece of technology
- Social media & technology are widely used, relatively easy to access, and plays an influential
role for those in society
- People grow up with a different social experience and face difficulties interacting in person
based on their dependency to communicate through social media
- For better or worse we are all impacted by the effects of technology and social media
Issue at Hand

3. Importance: Why we must do something about this
- This topic covers the topic of communication and how messages can be interpreted
in many different ways, which invites inconsistency to ones message
- Communication is more or less a survival skill
- Communication is how we establish and maintain relationships
- Technology is constantly changing and many ways of avoiding face-to-face
conversations have been given as an option
Why is this Issue important

4. Curious:
- How can we help further develop people’s social skills beyond the use of social
media?
- What’s the risk of too much social media?
- How will the future look if people aren’t able to communicate effectively?
- If there is to be change, are people willing to comply?
- Who will teach children ho to communicate if majority of people are not able to
communicate effectively already?
- Why do kids have such access and availability to the internet now as opposed to
when previous generations first started using the internet?
- How will jobs run in the future if employees can’t communicate well?
Questions

5. • Information: What type of research is out there
- Statistics
- Blogs
- First hand experiences and observations
Available Research

6. Problems or challenges: with your topic(Be honest)
• This topic covers a large amount of people who aren’t in the same circumstances
• The use of social media and technology varies from person to person
• This topic runs on a fine line between opinion and fact which means that
information can easily be distorted and seem legit simultaneously
Problems

7. SOURCES
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Bindley, Katherine. "When Children Text All Day, What Happens To Their Social
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