Social Media is Detrimental to our Face-to-Face Interactions with Strangers

Social media is detrimental to our face-to-face interactions with strangers. Although social media has created the ability for us to communicate easier and more efficient than face-to-face interactions, the majority of communication is non-verbal. This means social media is decreasing the quality of our interactions. We are losing the elements of communication that are contained in facial expressions, gestures, and posture. Due to our busy life styles, easier and efficient is appealing to more people. Even at times when we are face-to-face with others, we are spending our time on our devices checking our social media accounts. With the increasing lack of interpersonal communication due to social media our ability to interact in a traditional face-to-face manner has become challenging, especially for the younger members of our society.  For these reasons, I believe social media is detrimental to our face-to-face interactions with strangers.