Social skill is something we all had to, or must go through to gain connections for our social networks. Most often, the cliché example is children learning how to interact with other children in the “playground” scenario. Since technology has been greatly implemented in our everyday lives, it gives reason to suggest that kids are going to take part in exploring new information, as well as others and themselves online.
Class rooms across the country are constantly changing the way they approach education mixed with technological advances. For example, many schools have online ways of interacting with classmates and teachers through means of blackboard, blogging, and other variations of FDU’s web campus feature. Others question the method of teaching through online resources because of the fear of not equipping children and teens with adequate social skills that would prepare them for adulthood. Even the workplace has vast amounts of technology supporting the way business is done across the world. Can children and teens be ignorant of how to apply these new technologies to their future careers?
Social skills result from ones associations, networks, but most importantly the trust holding those networks together. These factors are all dependent upon each other, and rely on each other to advance in society. In the “public spheres” of Myspace and Facebook people can play different roles depending on what their specific intentions are, but for most children and teens that is maintaining their social capital. There are certain etiquettes which go along with any online community that take onto social networking sites, but usually never stray from their own circle of friends. In other words, they are voluntarily putting themselves on display to their peers to broadcast how they want to be seen.
An article from ABC News entitled “Study: Kids developing social skills online”. The author, Ravi Baichwal, discusses how online tools may be a benefit to those kids who are growing up in an already technologically globalized world. One of the arguments for this is that parents have to be in tune enough to monitor how much time/what their child is doing online. The idea is that the more versed in online communication someone is, the higher the likelihood that they would advance in a future career.
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