Because of the devolopment of technology in recent years, many people have changed the methods they use to interact with each other. Most of the time people use social media to create new relationships, which in my opinion, is a bad development, due to the poor real face-to-face intearction.
Recently, people started to dislike metting face-to-face and they prefer to create online-relationships. This because of the chances of making new friends that social media provide without spending time to go out with them. its much esaier to find new friends that share the same intrest with us by being active on the internet and interacting with them through social media apps, which could save a lot of time. For example, In the US, recent reports founds that apps Like Discord and Facebook are being used to create new friendships more than evere before.
The main drawback of this development is the lack of real interaction. Real interaction is importent to genarate strong social skills, and these new ways people choose to build their relationships does not provide that. For instance, if a person used to spend their time on online and not go out and interact with others in real-life, by time this will lead to anxiouty and fear of crowded places. For example, most of the new genaration have a bad preformence when they try to talk in front of a large number of people, because they used to chat with online friends and isolate themselfes from the public.
In conclusion, in the present day, many people changed their ways of interacting with others, and they switched to online friendships. However, I believe this have many disadvantages, due to the poor real interaction, which is crucial for building strong social skills.