Have the new media changed our lives for the better?

Have the new media changed our lives for the better?

With technological advances in today's era, it is inevitable for new innovations and advancements to percolate into our lives. Our social interactions have drastically changed with the introduction of new media into our lives. Facebook, a social networking site, is now a tool utilised by almost every teenager to expand their social networks. Through Facebook, people can interact with their friends, acquire new acquaintances and share their lives with other people online. This outlet has allowed people to socialise through a non-conventional method via the internet instead of the conventional method of physical, social interactions. Technological advances such as these social networking sites improve the social well-being of people as a different form of expressing thoughts is available. However, while there is a new outlet for socializing, people may lose contact with the physical world. Addiction to the Internet is prevalent among teenagers today and though they might have a new outlet for interactions, a similar one has been banished. This may cause people to be anti-social and be segregated from society; a form of ethereal disconnection from physical interactions. Therefore, with the not so intense opportunity cost of new media, new media has changed our lives for the better.