Isolation Related to Social Media

To what extent do you agree or disagree with claims that social media tends to isolate us rather than connect us?

In his article “Social Media: The Screen, the Brain, and Human Nature,” Justin Vihn describes the possible impacts that social media might have on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree with social media’s tendency to become addictive and its supposed ability to lure people away from more meaningful and important interactions and activities?