Social Media: Is it Good Or Bad?

I just read two articles about social media and how it is effecting our every day lives. In the first article "How social networks can destroy your social life" The author talks about how a man was having a dinner party and a friend who hadn't been invited texted him and said since you have people over mind if i stop by. come to find out that his dinner guest had posted pictures, twitter post, and checked in at his house all on different social networking sites. It also came out that his dinner party was viewed but at least 20 million viewers that's more then people who watch the late show on CBS. The author of the article talks about how social networks are killing our social life because we no longer have to physically ask someone how they are doing we just have to look at Facebook or Twitter to find this out. In a second article it talks about how social networks are the tipping point for people with anxiety or it can cause anxiety. This is because people have become so dependent on technology that when we are away from it we feel deprived. studies have shown that people are constantly checking their phones and computers and when they are not able to access them they feel left out. i feel like both of these articles are very true because being a college student and a future coach/teacher it is becoming more and more important that we use technology and social networks in our classrooms. I feel like the more we use these social networks in our classrooms the more distant our students will be from the actual learning and it will also change how students socialize in the future.... Heck it has changed how we socialize now. it use to be that we had to actually approach a person and find out their name and where they go to school and other information. Now all we have to know is their name and we immediately go and try to find them on Facebook or twitter and we can find out all that other information. At the bottom of this post are the links to these articles.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/social-media-anxiety_n_1662224.html
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/21/john-naughton-foursquare-social-networking