Nowadays, many people, particularly young adults, rely heavily on online communication rather than face-to-face interaction. This trend has led to several problems, including increased introversion and a decline in teamwork skills. However, these issues can be solved by limiting excessive device use and encouraging greater participation in social events.
With the popularity of social media applications, young people started to communicate mainly through them, everyone has found the most comfortable application and started to rely on it. Almost all of the interactions are happening with the help of online communication, whether people just want to send an email about work or they want to discuss something with their friends or relatives. All of these interactions have led to decrease in face-to-face communication, since there is no need to go somewhere far away to make an appointment or share information. However, there are some consequences of this trend. Firstly, young adults become introverted, since there is no need to interact face-to-face, and they used to relying on having time for reply and grammar checker. Secondly, using only online interactions would have an impact on reducing teamwork skills, students or young workers potentially could lose this skill, which will be reflected in their work efficiency, performance and motivation.
There are several solutions in order to increase face-to-face interactions. First of all, organisations such as universities and work companies should find some options to maximise real interactions. It could be some restrictions to asking questions only online, because for instance the question suggests a long answer with explanations, which of course it will be easier to answer face-to-face. Another solution will be organising more social events during the year, not only having a New Year´s Eve celebration, but also some other holidays, as well as some team building events or other workshops.
In conclusion, among young adults there is a growing reliance on online communication, which leads them to be more introverted and to a loss of teamwork skills. Nevertheless, there are solutions in order to increase face-to-face interactions, which are to organise more events for young adults and to put some restrictions on online communication.