Do you think Technology has helped people to become more social or more anti social?

[Cicero]

I hear many adults saying it has made people anti social. I believe the opposite. What's your opinion?

[Aves]

Helped me become more social. So I'm saying social.

[trooneh]

Technology is both a positive and a negative in this. Technology includes everything from automobiles to the internet to cell phones. Some technology helps you to be more social, such as modern forms of transportation allowing for people to congregate at places easier. However, with the internet and the huge increase in video games, there is some evidence of an increase in anti-social behavior, where people get very little to no face-to-face interaction each day. The internet also can play a role in increasing sociability, though, as Connor mentioned. It's a good way to practice your social skills.

[KidImage]

Technology is both a positive and a negative in this. Technology includes everything from automobiles to the internet to cell phones. Some technology helps you to be more social, such as modern forms of transportation allowing for people to congregate at places easier. However, with the internet and the huge increase in video games, there is some evidence of an increase in anti-social behavior, where people get very little to no face-to-face interaction each day. The internet also can play a role in increasing sociability, though, as Connor mentioned. It's a good way to practice your social skills.

i agree

[gordongray]

Well, I am leaning more toward antisocial but I also thing it depends on each person.

It's definitely made it easy to anyone to meet new people easily from every corner of the earth but at the same it's got us hiding between a pc or phone or other devices chatting away and letting life pass us by.

[BFG9001]

I'm anti social, but it's not due to technology. It just gives me something to do.

If that makes sense.

[Erasmus]

I think it's made kids much more social because now, we can meet new people from anywhere, and talk to them about anything

[project_icarus]

I don't really believe that technology - a wide range of things - has made/makes people anti-sociable. However, I do believe it can make some people (who don't get much/any personal interaction) unsociable.

[kenoloor]

It all depends on how it's used. Obviously technology can make us become hermits and never have human contact again. But it can also give a helping hand to those who may have trouble being social at first and it also extends the range of people we can meet; just look at VT. I would never have even known any of you people even existed if not for technology.
Just don't be stupid about your use of it.

[Fiction]

I'd say antisocial. My whole life began to revolve around a computer and I ended up completely isolated from the real world. Yes, I was being social on here, but it wasn't a life. In the end, the isolation almost killed me. I'd go as far as to say the lack of real life contact is one of the main things that caused me to attempt suicide the last time I ended up hospitalised just over a month ago.

[Yehudis13]

It helps you become more social, but i know things like facebook really piss me off, because I have a few friends who are facebooking when they are in the same room, and they are sitting right next to each other! I think that the net brings us further apart, or totally close, but not both, but it definitely helps the social society

[Kaius]

Depends but for me its made me more antisocial. I became more dependent on people i met on here than I spent time getting to know people outside of the net. When you neglect socialization in real life it begins to effect other things as well and it slowly just eats away at you. Idk its okay to have friends on here but you need friends offline as well to even it out. I dont regret meeting anyone on here and in moderation its not bad.. but you need a level to even it out :/ Otherwise its just not healthy.

[Brookie Ugene Wagner]

I think yes technology makes us social ONLINE, but in real life we are getting less and less soial because we would rather send a txt. We would rather send a quick message or mass txt. To us technology ahs made talking to people easier and lazier, so we don't have to confront them face to face.

[Nihilus]

Where I live, kids spend more time on their phones/ ipods in their free time than without. They'd rather play video games rather than go out into the neighborhood and do outside stuff.

[Wicked_Syn]

I believe it's made a lot of more people antisocial, including me.

It's sad because I'm having a tough time deciding if I want to delete my facebook.

I think people are much to reliant on using facebook, the internet and texting as a form of communication now.

I understand how gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender people may want to use the internet to communicate and I don't blame them.

I just think we people should tone down the usage of the internet and stuff a bit. I've made that a personal goal of mine and in the past I've abstained from Facebook for a month and I can't tell you how good I felt being away from it. It's an addiction really

[love...sophia]

yes...

[Desuetude]

yes...

Lol, that isnt an answer.

For me i think anti social because although i am making a bunch of new friends and talking to them. To my parents i have become a room monster who only comes out at meal times and i must seem a right loner. I never go and see friends anymore and only socialise with people at school.
To me people I meet on the computer isnt really socialising, it's just talking so i dont count it.

[Amaryllis]

Depends on what constitutes as "sociable." Socialising with people on the internet or on phones is socialising. However it isn't socialising in the typical sense of talking face to face or on the sports field that previous generations are used to.

Technology is simply a new form of communication.

[wyatt]

I think it makes people more social, but reduces much of our social skills

[panick]

I cant vote one of them... Technology has helped of course... But many people just are helped from technology and they "take advantage" of it and they have friends outside of pc and go for walks etc. On the contrary, others are addicted and they "loose" their friends because of it and they become antisocial, not going out of their house. Personally have helped me I suppose.

[TeddyBearRock]

Hard to say, You can talk with your friends that its hard to reach, but reserch violent video games make children more antisocail

[Straight]

Technology is both a positive and a negative in this. Technology includes everything from automobiles to the internet to cell phones. Some technology helps you to be more social, such as modern forms of transportation allowing for people to congregate at places easier. However, with the internet and the huge increase in video games, there is some evidence of an increase in anti-social behavior, where people get very little to no face-to-face interaction each day. The internet also can play a role in increasing sociability, though, as Connor mentioned. It's a good way to practice your social skills.
this

[botwa]

I believe it helped to be more social