Counter Argument

My initial argument was all about social media hindering interpersonal relationships. In my first premise is that social media makes one feel disconnected from family members and friends. The second premise is that social media makes face-to-face talks to stop since people have substitutes for communication. The third assumption is that people are prevented from having good relationships with their friends. Forth premise is that social media can make you lonely if one dwells in it to make up relationships. Thus this paper will have this argument and a contrary of it to counter the point that social media hinders interpersonal relationships. It will be about how social media is taking part to improve interpersonal relationships and a better part of its advantages. The argument will have three premises and a support conclusion.

Initial argument

Premise 1: social media made one feel disengaged from people and isolated from family members and friends. The distance between people that one relates with cannot be compensated with communication via social media platforms (Davis, 2013).

Premise 2: social media can make someone is held up in social platforms to substitute face-to-face talks. Talking face-to-face can just end due to someone just dwelling on social media platforms (Fuchs, 2017).

Premise 3: interpersonal relationships between people are deterred by social media. That happens because people spend most of the time on devices communicate, but sometimes communication may be cut short due to the network.

Premise 4: social media can make one lonely if one uses it to mend relationships. That is when one thinks social media communication can help improve the relationship (Davis, 2013).

Conclusion: social media is thus a hindrance to interpersonal relationships. People get so much influenced by social media communications and gadgets have become the closest friends leaving out their friends and family members (Fuchs, 2017).

Counter argument

Premise 1: social media ease’s communication with friends and family members.

Premise 2: social media reconnects friends and relatives who cannot communicate regularly.

Premise 3: social media is proven to intensify self-disclosure levels between family and friends.

Conclusion: thus, social media improves interpersonal relationships.

Premise 1, social media ease’s communication with friends and family members since people can easily discuss their family issues on social media without necessarily meeting. Social media has eased so many things that even friends can even make a business on media (Davis, 2013).

Premise 2, reconnection of friends and family members can happen so quickly especially, or those who were long lost and they meet on platforms like Facebook. That makes them come together even if they are on different continents.

Premise 3, social media has been proven to intensifying the relationship between families and friends which comes powerfully. People spend most of their time on their gadgets communicating to friends (Davis, 2013).  In case one alone and far from the friends and relatives then through talking on social media one still feels the closeness although they are not there physically. Also for those who work a distance although meet often they can maintain their bond by communicating daily on social media and that even makes their relationship bond stronger.

Conclusion: thus social media is good in promoting interpersonal relationships and maintaining it since, from all the premises above, one can reconnect with people via social media. Interpersonal relationships are more rebuild than destroyed by social media.

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Reference

Davis, K. (2013). Young people’s digital lives: The impact of interpersonal relationships and digital media use on adolescents’ sense of identity. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(6), 2281-2293.

Fuchs, C. (2017). Social media: A critical introduction. Sage.