Problem
Write small essay of topic: How, or in what ways, does social media impact our ability to connect?
Some questions which might help you answer the topic as essay:
How has the quality of relationships changed in the digital age?
1. How does technology enable us to sustain relationships? What is lost when we use technology to do so?
2. What are the challenges and opportunities connecting with others in our hectic and sometimes isolated world?
3. Why is conversation important? How does social media and technology impact our development as human beings?
I am also including here from few authors who discussed regarding this topic, this might help you answer above questions :
A. "We learn how we are and aren't supposed to act but observing others and then having opportunities to act out our observations ourselves."(Maria Konnikova 239)
B. "Among young people especially she found that the self was increasingly becoming externally manufactured rather than internally developed" (Peggy Orenstein 253)
C. "We are lonely, but we are afraid of intimacy. And so, from social networks to sociable robots we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship" (Sherry Turkle 12:12 - 12:20)