| a) The short answer is yes. The long answer is as follows: Social skills - e.g being able to hold a1) ______, influence others, build rapport are skills which we develop from childhood. If these are not used, then like any athlete who stops 2) _____, we will see a deterioration in 3)_______. We are seeing a big gap in the emotional 4) intelligence (of which social skills is a major part) in the 5)______ Facebook generation. Generation x and previous generations had letter, phone or face to face conversations as our only channels of 6) communication. Consequently, the ability to maintain real time conversations was a key skill to 7) ______ and one which business and society needs as a whole. If you think about the average 20 year old today, the 8) _____of which communication medium to chat to their mates is huge. Text, Facebook, SMS based chat, Skype, phone, Twitter, letter, e-mail. 9) _____ time conversations is just one of many options. 10) , this generation hasn't spent as much time in their teenage years developing much needed social skills for later life. However, Social networking does have some positive impacts on interpersonal skills. It can help foster a sense of community and 11) ______ –- on a group of disparate people. Without realising it, social networking sites helps like minded people 12) ____ together. Usage of these sites helps break the ice in first real time conversations. In summary, use your interpersonal skills or lose them. b) Takes away the talent of using one's vocal chords to communicate face to face... c) It can make it better as 1- It 13) _____ to an audience that you would have never reached otherwise and you communicate with them through cross-cultural communication that you learn by practicing it 2- You learn to be short and concise as sometimes you are 14) ______ by the number of characters in your messages 3- You learn not to push; if not you will 15) _____ these connections d) Depends on the person. Some might rely too heavily on their ability to connect with others online and forego face-to-face interaction. Needless to say, this sort of 16) ____ is unlikely to benefit real-life interpersonal skills. However, the mere availability/use of social networking media does not always result in a loss of the ability to 17) ______otherwise. Many people (I would hope to include myself within this group) remain perfectly capable of maintaining face-to-face relationships. I think there are some 18) ____ to both face-to-face and online communication. But, as with most things, the key is moderation. Too much of either and one is bound to forfeit some capacity to interact well with others. e) It must do. However what effect it has depends on the 19) _____and the use they make of it. Some use it beneficially to extend their network without losing the ability to deal face-to-face, others use it as an escape from reality. f) Definitely. People have become less personable[1] and some even don't understand how to interact in a business deal no matter what the 20) _____ We can start, initially meet, and greet on social media. But we must meet in person, speak on the phone, and handlea contract in person or after a meeting be it in person or on skype. Social skills are 21) _______important and should not be ignored. Social media is only an avenue to reach our goals, it is not the destination. g) Yes, I do believe social networking impacts our ability to communicate22)___face to face. We have begun to expect 23)_____responses and answers that are basically status updates. In addition, our ability to communicate effectively online has 24) _____ as well. The English language has been transformed in to a net language that not everyone is trained in therefore our spelling and grammar suffers. If we are trying to make an impression online I believe it is often 25)_____ hampered by one's 26) _____to portray themselves honestly and effectively online. | 1. converse 2. train 3. perform 4. intelligent 5. youth 6. community 7. development 8. choose 9. unreal 10. consequence 11. identify 12. joint 13. extension 14. boundless 15. loss 16. respond 17. functional 18. beneficial 19. personality 20. serious 21. height 22. effect 23. immediately 24. suffering 25. severity 26. able |
