How Social Media Affects Intimacy

1. How social media affects intimacy Social media make it possible to have and keep multiple friends in different areas and of different social status. It is possible to engage in a chat with senior members of the society, a company executive or other people who are otherwise difficult to meet in a face to face encounter. The media also allows for convenient interaction between friends at any other time of the day despite the busy schedules that work provides. Through an online contact, people can have a feeling of intense closeness and provide the company they each desire. It is also possible to disclose information in words that in face to face encounter may not be easy to say out of cultural inhibitions. However when words are said or written in social media they leave a more permanent impression and impact because they can be recorded and reference made them at a later date. Social media allows for encounter between friends without then having to physically travel to meet. Also ideas, emotions and feelings can be expressed while friends are apart at a higher frequency than would be the case if two people were to physically travel to meet