Week 5 Final Paper

- 1 - [no notes on this page]Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA HINDERS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 1 Social Media hinders interpersonal Relationships Brenda Rouse PHI 103 Informal Logic Instructor: Teresa Knox February 25, 2017 Social Media hinders interpersonal Relationships - 2 - 1 1. users.

good format [Teresa Knox] SOCIAL MEDIA HINDERS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 2 Main argument:

Premise 1: Unless controlled, over usage of social media services can lead to addiction more so in personal usage than business usage.

Premise 2 : Social media addiction, like other forms of addiction, may result in impulsive, uncontrollable, and damaging behaviors that affect users and those they interact with negatively.

Premise 3 : Damaging behaviors because of over usage of social media services poses adverse consequences on interpersonal relationships.

Premise 4: over usage of social media services can cause individuals to isolate themselves away from engaging in complex interpersonal relationships as well as shut themselves completely off from the actual world.

Conclusio n: Social media limits and hurts the development of interpersonal relationships of the users.

Counterargument Premise 1 : Social media channels facilitate people from different parts of the world to connect as well as share experiences of their lives.

Premise 2 : Social media helps reclusive individuals to meet new people online and communicate with them.

Premise 3 : Social media channels give people greater freedom to express themselves.

Conclusion : Social media, therefore, enhances the development of interpersonal relationships.

Premise 1 of the counterargument is widely known to users of social media services. According to Chasombat (2014), social media provides users with channels to connect and network with people who they would never have met in any other situation. Social media was created to eliminate the geographical and physical barriers of communication. - 3 - 1 1. situation.

good support [Teresa Knox] SOCIAL MEDIA HINDERS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 3 Premise 2, on the other hand, focuses on reclusive people where social media provides them with an opportunity to communicate. These people usually shut themselves away from the actual world. However, social media gives them private channels to communicate from the privacy of their home. With social media, they can control what they share with others without having to see them one-on-one.

Premise 3 is the fact that social media enables users to be themselves or adopt personalities they want to. It allows them to hide behind screens and communicate information they would not divulge in the real world. This allows individuals to be more open and gives them a chance to reveal a part of their lives they would not show in a real world situation.

Therefore, this counterargument is deductively valid. If all of its premises are true, then it follows that the conclusion too is true. The premises flow seamlessly from one to the other leading to the conclusion. For example, these premises reveal how reclusive people can use social media to establish new connections and conduct business without having to interact physically with other individuals. Also according to Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Zúñiga y Postigo, G. “when we combine inductive arguments of different strength, generally the argument is only as strong as its weakest part. You can think of each inference in an argument as being like a link in a chain. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” (Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Zúñiga y Postigo, G. 2015).

The fact that social media can be addictive leading to damaging results despite its important role in facilitating interpersonal communication leads to a significant disagreement between the two arguments. Benefits of social media usage are tied to how people use social media services. Therefore, social media usage is not always a bad thing, as the main argument tends to perceive it. In fact, social media facilitates interpersonal relationships as it facilitates - 4 - [no notes on this page]SOCIAL MEDIA HINDERS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 4 easier connections with people beyond physical and geographical barriers. It enables people who would have otherwise never interacted with each other to communicate and interact with each other even on a one-on-one basis albeit virtually. Social media is so good that it allows reclusive people, individuals who otherwise shut themselves away from the world to form meaningful relationship online on social media platforms. These relationships can materialize to real life relationships.

Conclusively, the fact that social media usage allows reclusive people to communicate and establish meaningful relationships via social media calls for a rethink of how social media is perceived. For example, autistic people often find it hard to communicate and establish interpersonal relationships in real life. However, these individuals can use social media to establish connections and create authentic relationships. Social media gives them a friendly, enabling, and comfortable environment to connect and engage with each other. Thus, benefits of social media in enhancing interpersonal relationships far outweigh the possible harmful effects due to social media addiction. According to our text References - 5 - [no notes on this page]SOCIAL MEDIA HINDERS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 5 Chasombat, P. (2014). SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IMPACTS ON INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND RELATIONSHIPS (Doctoral dissertation, National Institute of Development Administration). Retrieved from http://libdcms.nida.ac.th/thesis6/2014/b185644.pdf Davies, H. (2013). Social media and personal relationships: online intimacies and networked friendship. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.850527 Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Zúñiga y Postigo, G. (2015). With good reason: A guide to critical thinking [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/