proposition June 10, 2019 by admin COMM’s 238 Intro to Communications Proposal paper Social media has revolutionized the medium of communication for us. It has changed the how what and why we communicate. It has helped to fix a myriad of different communications problems that we had before there was anything like Facebook. But before Facebook came out there was myspace which fixed a few problems we had then Facebook took the idea of social media and put it on steroids. Since Facebooks launch there has been a few other social media platforms that have been launched and have fixed small problems and found their niche market and made billions for themselves. Though we have a few different options for social media now and they have fixed quite a few different problems for us they have also created one or two different problems that need to be addressed and should be explored to see if there is a way that we can make something to try and fix them or if they can even be fixed at all. You could say that this is a proposal on social media and the problems that it has created as it has come about in our lives. The problem that I am focusing in on is the fact that people are becoming less and less socially capable with each other. Because of social media people spend copious amounts of time sending selfies and posting about how great their lives are when in reality they are losing the interpersonal and intrapersonal communication skills that they truly need to be able to make it in life. Humans are social beings, so I get the idea of sharing and posting all the time, but what is it worth if you do not know how to have a one on one conversation with someone in face to face format. It sounds like I am dogging on social media, but the truth is that it is robing people of those skills. I remember going to the shopping mall a few weeks ago and seeing all the younger kids just sitting around with all of their friends literally doing nothing but sitting in a circle with their heads down looking at their phones and not talking or communicating with each other in any way. I genuinely felt bad for them. From what I have talked about in the previous paragraphs I have stated that social media has fixed a lot of problems but created one major one along the way. For my proposal I propose that (like stated before) Social media is causing a problem that is slowly taking away people’s ability to be social with other people in their daily routines. This is not a problem that has become some sort of national crisis, but it is a problem that needs to be looked at. The fact that people are losing their ability to be socially active and have the interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that we need in order to succeed is a big problem. I guess a more accurate way to say it is that social media is not fulfilling the interpersonal and intrapersonal social interaction that we as humans need to have in our lives. Living the rest of our lives looking at some little rectangle for all the answers to our social needs is not a way to live. We need to take a step back and see what we can do to address this problem and see if there is something or some form of mechanism that can be created that can fix the problem and reestablish that communication that we need in our lives in a much more filling way
