In the "covered wagon days," long before Social Media, the Internet, and instant messaging have all conspired to take over the collective consciousness of the planet, things were much more complicated yet. Gone are the days of snail mail, actually having to wait to go to school to see friends, or having to pass a driver's exam so that a guy/girl could finally prove his worth to a crush or potential girlfriend/boyfriend just by the fact that they finally could be independent and have their own mode of transportation.
Social media and the Internet have, in some ways, brought people together. However, (and I am guilty of this), I believe that Social Media and the Internet have largely made the old ways of connecting with people utterly irrelevant. I don't believe that, given the choice, people would pass up meeting a potential friend/mate to just being relegated to an online relationship.
On one hand, I'm grateful to Social Media and the Internet for the reason that it's brought me the opportunity to meet people that I probably would have never met otherwise in real life because I normally am not one to go out much. However, on the other hand, it kind of creates a kind of distance and skepticism that would raise potential obstacles to really "getting to know" people.
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