Topic > The negative effects of face-to-face communication of…

Heather A. Horst focuses her approach on how interactions between family members are decreasing because they spend too much time on the Internet and on their phones. This not only affects their home life, but also outside of it, as they lack communication skills that should be learned at home. Parents worry that their children are spending too much time on computers and mobile devices, rather than outside, interacting in person with their friends and family. Some parents feel they have lost control and that their children have become addicted to social media. Even parents who seem to think they have technology under control at home don't have much control over it when their kids are elsewhere, whether at a friend's house or at school. The amount of access they have to technology is unlimited. To look at the positive aspect of this, social media also allows families to spend more time interacting together. Akmalla, who spends his free time playing World of Warcraft with his family, states that through the use of technology, he is able to spend more time with them (Horst, 2007, p..