I personally don't believe that social media sites are a replacement for social interaction in the least. The purpose for these sites was to give more access to people to communicate with their friends and to share things about their day. Spending hours on the internet can be unhealthy, but isn't that still considered socially interacting?
In order to have a decent web page, you need two things: friends and posts. I know what your thinking with the "oh, so what about people with 2 million friends" kind of people, but that in itself is partially right. If you have no one seeing you, you are just wasting your time talking to no one. Having too many friends can ruin your social life, I agree, but at least the said person has some. Unfortunately, having a few friends isn't enough; you need to be socially active. You don't always need to use the godly semi-colon as I had just used in extreme in depth posts about societies wrongs and rights, but you need something. If you invite a bunch of people to your friends list and never say a word, can you call them your friends?
Now, for about 98% of people, these two conditions are met, so now what? Well, you can do whatever you like. You post about your day, upload pictures of your dog in a robot costume, or even link a song you like. Being on social websites helps you communicate your self or your intended image to those you like, which is, in my opinion, socialization.
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