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Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

But social media makes us inable to interact face to face when the time comes for such an occasion. In social media, we can proofread our chat and delete it or edit is as we see is necessary. In real life, once the words comes out of your mouth, there isn't a way to get it back. Thus social media can actually make us less social
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

but it actually gives you more time to think through your words unlike real life where you can't take it back. this would save you from getting into trouble etc.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

But what is the true point of interacting when it lacks human emotion . Communicating with each other face to face is part of everyday life . Even though you say something that may get you in trouble , that was the first opinion that you gathered from the previous statement . Why try and change what you are trying to say when the first thing that comes into your mind is your true and honest opinion . If people get to used to this , instead of honest conversations between 2 individuals , people over think their sentences and they dont say what comes to their mind at first.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

At times, we need to think of proper way to phrase our sentences in order not to hurt the friend's feelings.Hence, we learn to be more attentive of ourselves not being dishonest.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

We are able to interact face to face with the use of the webcam, and for certain chats, we are unable to delete it and thus, your statement is not completely true.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

what is given cannot be taken back even if it is on chats because everything that is sent is pretty much permanent and more than saying it out in real life, in chats you have written proof!
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I said proofread, of course you cannot delete what that has gone out. But people can proofread the chat before they send it. If they do not want to reply, they could always say afk
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

No I do not agree. Social Media have made it easier for us to communicate with others which means we are more social.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I dont agree with this, so you're saying that just because of the convenience for communicating with others make we more social? Please define the meaning of 'being more social' .... Convenience ≠ Be more social
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

By being more convenient when conversing with our friends, it removes the awkwardness and breaks the ice especially when making new friends.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

That is not necessarily the case . Yes , social media allows us to interact with people we may have never have talked to . But what is the point of that when they are just words on a screen with little emotion/feelings behind them ?
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

a chat can have feelings/emotions because thats what emoticons are for! a simple smiley emoticon can be a measure to how they are feeling.Besides, it allows people who are socially awkward and do not have the self esteem to stand up for themselves to show their povs and opinions.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

You are confusing Digital intimacy with actual intimacy. It is proven that people often overestimate how close they are to each other in social media. this can cause us to lose real friends
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

But emoticons may not be true . As when people say "LOL" they are not actually amused by whatever the previous statement was . They are simply trying to make the conversation less awkward by trying to show some emotions that may not naturally be true and honest.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Through Social Networks, friends are able to better understand others outside of their own group of friends.This encourages everyone to be more social in real life as well.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

The recent technology has came up with a device called the WebCam/iSight/FaceTime for people to see each other. When you meet someone face-to-face, you judge their emotions/feelings by looking at them - you can do the same over the internet using the webcam too.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social media has also helped to reach out to so many people and bring up issues that were not brought up before the rise of social media.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

I would like to object to the statement for actually it does elp youths to know about the updates of one person and to know more information about them. And just because someone is active online, it does not mean that the person does not go out with his or her friends
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social Media made us MORE social, because it enabled us to meet more different people which have given us exposure to the other types of people in the world other than the people we already know closely.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

However these different people you meet may not be who you think they are since people can hide their identity on the internet. They may actually be completely different in a real life context. Therefore, people tend to be awkward in real life as they do not have the ability to speak their mind in real life.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social media gives the socially awkward a chance to socialise with others through an anonymous alias and possibly help them grow out of their socially awkwardness and help them become more social. This also allows them to make new friends through the web.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social media has made us more social as people can easily find people with the same interests by looking at their blogs and such and people who write blogs often find friend from the people who agree and "like" it. Furthermore, we are using social media to debate this.
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

How many "lessons" of these are their going to be on here? These lessons just fill up the front page
Debate: S2-06 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social Media can also help with promoting/advertising your company or products that you want to sell, aiding the economy heavily around the world. It helps you to attract more customers from all over the world, so that you will have better business. More business also means that you have more interaction between companies or businessmen (being social).
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I believe that Social Media has made us less social. For an example, us using Facebook, posting statuses and pictures do not allow us to be closer to people. They make us seem far away from many, or make us feel that we do not have many friends, posting statuses on Facebook. Also, Twitter allows us to only rant about things and reply to people. However, replying to others on Twitter does not mean we are friends with them, we might just be clarifying something. iChat, too, makes us less social. Talking to friends on the internet might make us awkward with the person in real life, as we might be different from when we are online. We also cannot become closer to others through social media, unless we are sharing heartfelt feelings with our good friends whom we also talk to in real life. This is why I think social media makes us less social in real life, tweeting and posting statuses aimlessly.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Using Facebook does allow us to be closer to people, as it is an opinion, not a fact. You can just put away the computer for a month, go out and talk to people. It is all the same. You only use the computer when trying to contact someone for example at home or somewhere else that is far away from you. You chose to update your statuses instead of talking face to face, and no one is forcing you.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

In your argument, you mention that we can see statuses posted by people from far away, this shows that it has allowed us to communicate from a distance, hence allowing us to communicate with ease. This has made us more social.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I think that social network has made us less social. This is because of the fact that socializing on the internet is not socializing. It may seem that you are social as you have many friends on facebook or many followers on twitter, but look at it this way. If you were outside, at the mall would you be able to go up to anyone and say hi and instantly make a friend? How many people on facebook do you really personally know, how many of the friends on your facebook or twitter actually knows you or befriended you to be your friend. My final stand is that social media has shrouded our view. We are not social, instead we are the other way around.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

With the help of social media, we can hide our actual feelings from the other party which we sometimes do not want to show. Thus, more people talk over social media to prevent themselves from being embarrassed.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

The physical aspect of Technology could be seen as just as damaging to how social we are. By texting under a table at a restaurant, by updating Twitter whilst in a meeting, it is obvious people are coming close to alienating themselves, thanks to this ‘addiction’ to the web. It is apparent in every day life: Technology is making us rude, as it distracts us from our friends.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Not everyone texts under tables or tweet during a meeting. That is just a minority, and you can't judge an entire community based on its minorities.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

This is social media making us LESS social... Updating twitter while being outside may seem that we are not being social but in fact, we are communicating to other people. This "addiction" makes us even MORE social rather than making us less social
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

No, we might be "social" online, but we are being antisocial in real life with everyone else we are with at the point of moment. Us being "social" online makes us less social in real life, which defeats the purpose of us being social online.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

But if they are addicted and spend more time behind the screen, they will not be face to face with other people a lot and so over time, they may lose their social skills and be less social :pp
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

However, if we are able to control it, wouldn't it be fine?
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

How will you control it? If Irfan says its addictive, then people will be addicted and wouldn't it be hard to cope with addiction?
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Social Media has made us glued to our computer screen, checking our social network accounts and seeing what others have posted. Even though it allows us to chat online with one another, it has made us shy away from face to face interactions.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

School has taught us to refrain from excessive usage of internet.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

However, most of us still use social media. Almost everyone in school has a Facebook, or Twitter account. The school refraining us from using too much internet is not exactly working.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

that is obvious. at school, whenever our teacher allows us to use the computer, more than half of us would access social media
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I believe so as social media networking platforms have personal and group chats that connect users together. With this, the meeting-up process is reduced since we can discuss work and arrange games through the internet or through phones. Thus, people lose the need to meet face to face just to talk about things or do stuff together.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Social Media takes up a lot of time. The whole day we are busy to connect with each other. We send a tweet, we change our status on Facebook or we change the status on our LinkedIN profile. But if we meet each other in ‘real life’, face to face, and there is a small silence we grab our smartphones and do whatever.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Some people check their accounts on social media only for a brief moment, maybe for checking up what's new or what's hot. And not everyone has a smartphone (e.g. the guy sitting on my right but don't tell him)
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

This is the fact that social media making us LESS SOCIAL. It does not indicate whether it is in real life or not. By doing these "updates' in social media, we communicate to alot more people, therefore making us even MORE SOCIAL rather than making us less social
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Being social on the internet is not being social at all. You might talk to many people online, but this does not mean you are very social and a lot of friends. It might just be allowing us to talk to people we don't know, but we do not become close to them at all.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Making a quick sidestep to the digital world, you might miss something! We’re using inanimate objects to convince ourselves that even when we’re alone, we feel together. And then when we’re with each other, we put ourselves in situations where we feel alone, constantly on our mobile devices.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I think that the media has made us less social. Socialising is to communicate to people and get to know each other while knowing the person you are talking to. Seeing the person as a whole, looking at body language and others is socialising. Going to omegle and chatting with a random person which you probably would not meet again your entire life is not socialising.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Thats maybe because you dont know the chat functions of Facebook and tagging both Twitter and FB
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

For people with friends, Omegle isn't a social media platform. Talking to strangers you meet on the streets isn't socialising either. Talking to friends is.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

While "socialising is to communicate to people and get to know each other while knowing the person you are talking to", one can also socialize by meeting new friends by interacting with strangers. And "going to omegle and chatting with a random person which you probably would not meet again your entire life is not socialising." cannot be true as omegle is not even a form of social media
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

However, we can broaden our knowledge by talking to them, therefore we are still socialising aren't we?
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

It is not socialising if you are talking to strangers you don't even know.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Social Media will require us to use an electronic device such as the computer, iphone or ipad. Thus, it will cause us to be able to spend less time with our family,friends and acquaintances.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Good time management will be able to solve that problem. By stating that statement, it actually reflects your poor time management skills.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

That is a problem within the family and not an issue. Social Platforms also allow families to connect with one another in far locations
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

You can socialize with people around you even with your devices around as long as you practice self-control.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

I feel that Social Media makes us less social because of the amount of time which we spent on using the mobile phones and this prevents us from meeting in real life such as examples where people send tweets and " online " birthday cards and birthdays wishes which prevents on making us meet in real life.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social media allows for people to carry out their daily activities while maintaining on schedule, therefore the online greeting cards and other stuff is a good idea to help people to socialize while keeping on schedule
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Social media has made people less social. People who use social media spend more time virtually online rather than in the real world. Most of these people don't have or can lose the social skills in the real world. These people The evidence is already in this class. Some of us are more active online than in the real world (not pointing any fingers). Some of us don't have much confidence. Social media takes time away from us because we are behind the screen and not face to face. This shows that social media has made us less social.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Yap Boon PinPeople will be more social on the cyberspace but less social on the real world. However, while they thought they are more social in social media by posting lots of stuff about them, they are wrong. They are just posting things nobody really cares unless there's stalkers. Since they are addicted to such platforms they will be more disconnected from reality and more connected to an A.I. - they would stick their eyes on smartphones and PCs everywhere they go and oblivious to his surrounding. Any unsatisfaction people would go online and post his complains, rather than talk to his best pal about it and this could build deeper friendship between them. But posting complains on social media, nobody really cares and if someone do and disagrees, both party would go deep into a raging argument.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

People won't be in the cyberspace for 24/7. Once they go to school, work, they meet people and talk face to face. They put their phones and computers away.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

The social media has made us Less Social as it has totally removed any moral values that our elders have taught us. The social media enables people to insult and hurt other people as they think that the media can easily protect them through the use of avatars and nicknames. This causes people to stay online as they feel safer and because of that, they begin to have malicious intentions. This will cause more people to fight which would cause even less people to communicate with one another,thus making us anti-social. An example would be the Anti-Islam movie/video which has caused riots in many of the major Islamic countries. This tells us that the media will only impact us negatively as more people would rather talk over the internet rather then meet in real life. Plus, more acts of violence can happen as the media would enable these people to do malicious acts.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

Social media is used to communicate and share ideas with friends. The riots are a choice of the citizens who chose to go out and riot, not that they are forced.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

But the riots would not have even been 'triggered' if the video was not put up in the first place. And this video is made possible through the use of media,thus showing us that the media would more likely impact us negatively.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

TIf you have not already realised, some elders also have social platforms as well. "The social media enables people to insult and hurt other people as they think that the media can easily protect them through the use of avatars and nicknames" only if the 'people' are really immature and have no life.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: Against

The internet also have taught us moral values. With the internet, much of educational videos have also been posted for us to learn.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

Some people use social media although we are together face to face as they want to talk about topics that they do not want other people to hear. Thus, even though two people are across each other face to face, there are still communications and uses of social media with others or each other.
Debate: S2-09 Social Media has Made Us Less Social. Do you agree? (Classroom Lesson)
Side: For

The social media platforms on mobile devices have kept most of ones attention, making them inattentive to the things around them. Even at the dinning table you can see people twitting that they are about to have dinner but they are not even looking at their food.