Social Interaction

The subject issue that this blog covers is something that I have touched on several times in the few before and is something that I feel strongly about.  The article by Delgado, "The Internet and Social Interaction" portrays a very similar outlook as mine in regards to the internet and its effects on users and their social interactions with others.  She mentioned several times toward the end of her article that there are definite benefits to the availability and convenience of communication methods like cell phones and texting but those things cannot in the least replace the personal interaction between another being.  Facebook and others can reunite long lost friends and high school buddies but if you had the opportunity to see someone like that would you choose rather to instant message them over the internet?  No way!  At least not me.  I do not think that the internet necessarily isolates individuals from real social interaction but I think that Delgado put it very well in her statement, "How do humans bond and know each other when they are not within the physical presence of who we genuinely are; living and breathing and seeing each other interact with the world around us".  The internet can provide us an enormous amount of convenience and information, when in this day in age some people cannot use conventional methods of media, and a source of marketing especially but it will never be a replacement for a man-to-man interaction and conversation between individuals.  For instance, internet means of communication can give me the opportunity to speak to my great grandmother in New York and even maybe get to see her face, but there is nothing that can replace being able to hug her and talk to her face to face.
-Chris C