Does Social Media Make Us More or Less Connected?

Abstract
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        This research project is about how social media affects the relationships between people, specifically, whether or not it actually makes us more or less connected to each other. This was done through both research and survey; research as that the researchers gathers resources to explore the question and try to objectively answer it through statistics, and survey as the researchers also gathered information from the people themselves to view the purpose on a more subjective level. Through both of these, the researchers have found that there exists many positive and negative effects with the presence of social media in our community that everyone should be aware about as not to harm themselves and their personal relationships with others. Also, according to the survey, most people do believe that social media does serves its purpose and makes people more connect in terms of distance, but it does not beat face-to-face communication.