One-third of People Communicate Less Face-to-face

Most of the people communicate less with their parents, children, partners, and friends. Social media has replaced face-to-face communication.

Nearly one-third of people communicate less face-to-face with their loved ones, which damages the relationships, finds a new study.

The findings showed that a significant third of people communicate less with their parents (31 percent), children (33 percent), partners (23 percent) and friends (35 percent) because they can see and communicate with them via social media.

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‘Social media has affected the relationship between spouse or partner and parents and children.’

"Digital communication is an opportunity to bridge the gaps in our modern lives caused by living in different cities or countries. However, it cannot replace face-to-face communication -- at least not always and not completely," said Astrid Carolus, media psychologist at the University of Wurzburg in Germany.

Although social media can help ease communication channels and bridge time zones and distance barriers, it does not always make people happy.

It can strain relationships as well as leaving people feeling down and upset, as they constantly compare their lives to those of others.

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The hunt for "likes" and social validation leads people to share increasing amounts of private information on social media platforms, putting not only themselves but also their friends, family and colleagues at risk.

Further, 21 percent of parents admitted that relationships with their children have been damaged as a result of them being seen in a compromising situation on social media.

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In contrast, only 14 percent of parents said they were annoyed by their children's online behavior.

In addition, around one-in-five (16 percent) people also said that their relationship with their spouse or partner has been damaged as a result of them being seen in a compromising situation on social media.

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However, many people believe that the quality of their relationships does not suffer at all and is even better as a result of being connected with their loved ones online.

"Under certain circumstances they perceive their online communication as "hyper-personal communication" and thus they can misread and over-interpret the messages on social media. We feel especially close, we blind out the rather negative, focus on the possible positive intentions behind a message and over-interpret," Carolus noted.

Source-IANS