Who else thinks social media like text message, facebook, etc is going to increase social anixety in people?

[Ellie Marieee :)]

Strange experience, but more of an observation that made me realize that obviously everything these days is about technology, everyone has a smart phone, laptop, whatever and we like to text people cause its more convenient and less awkward than calling people in person. But I was talking to a friend from high school on facebook chat, and the conversation was good, he kept making , !, icons when chatting and I suggested we should hang out at college campus sometime since we both go to the same school (we're not close friends, more like acquittance's but we wanted to know each other more)

anyways, when we meet it was so awkward! i started the conversation by talking about small things and he wouldn't respond or sometimes acted like he wanted to be somewhere else, and just completely not like in facebook.

My professor also made a good point that people are so use to enganging in text messaging each other, that when it comes to actual face to face conversations, we fail.