The rise of technology and reliance on social media are one of the cause that many people are experiencing decreased face-to-face communication skill, and can lead to social isolation. In my opinion this is a major issue that have to be resolved in the near future to make the next generation a better society, because I think communication is the core value to our society as a human.
We cannot deny the importance technology and social media in today society. But every good things have the downside. The first underlying issue that I can identify is that when we are using the technology and social media we often cannot see the other person face, the way they talk, the intonation, and so on. All of that makes us got caught up when we talk with each other face-to-face because we get used to talk what we want all we want because there are no instant feedback and no facial expression. Another cause that I can identify is when we are using the tehcnology and social media to talk to another person, we are just writing it down, we don’t speak it so we cannot hear ourselves and I think that makes us not used to speak our mind with confidence to other people.
In my opinion the solutions from the underlying causes that I identify is very simple. We have to limit ourselves from the technology or social media and go out to socialized more with our neighbours, friends, and people around us. While I’amaware that a very important things in our society but I think, as busy as we are, we can make time to go out and socialized, maybe just 1 to 3 hours per day.