Has social media in general, over the past 20 years, negatively

just look at /r9k/

>>1346223
Define these things and explain on what basis you want to evaluate them:
>social skills
>emotional intelligence
>social interaction
If you cannot do that, any discussion is pointless.

>>1346223
ITT: High school kid doing homework.

>>1346240
/r9k/ is just a meeting point for the people who already existed before the board came to be, it didn't create them.

>>1346247
It's late June though.

>in general

why generalise? it has done both

>>1346256
>everyone is american

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>>1346223
Stefanie is top qt

>>1346223
I genuinely think the internet has given a rise to autistic, unfuckable and mentally gone men and women. Not that they haven't always existed, but it increases the amount of them

>>1346290
>he doesn't know that he's on an american carpentry imageboard

>>1346390
>he doesn't realise it has an international userbase

>>1346223

Considering I've met/reconnected with all of my real life friends through social media, I'd say it's impacted my life in an overwhelmingly positive way.

If I had been born 10 years earlier, I'd probably be a mentally disturbed NEET that never left his room and had no friends.

As it is, I'm just an awkward introvert who has a small group of loyal friends, which is infinitely better.

>>1346223
Selecting input has become too easy. Feedback loops are omnipresent and turn everyone into little yong-ils.
"You said X while I prefer Y so I will unfriend you and never be criticized by you again" is a pretty new thing compared to "goddamnit martha my coworkers called me on my bullshit AGAIN today... maybe I'm not right about this".

>Has social media in general, over the past 20 years, negatively or positively impacted social skills/emotional intelligence/social interaction in general?

by what metric