Reflect back about what you have learned in this course about how to construct high quality arguments for positions. Give an example of how the ability to construct good arguments could help you in your career or in your daily life. Also, in what ways will the skill of being able to evaluate the quality of reasoning better enable you to discover what is true and to make better choices? (Give a specific example of each). Finally, consider the argument you have been developing for your writing assignments. How has considering objections helped you clarify your perspective? What might you add to your argument to make it more convincing in light of those objections? What points would you recommend that people keep in mind in order to be fair to both sides?Your journal entry must be at least 250 words. You do not need to follow APA style for this journal entry, but you should proofread your work to eliminate errors of grammar and spelling
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RELATIONSHIP
Counterargument Paper
April Martin
PHI103
Instructor Noel Sauer
August 29, 2016
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Does a Social medium enhance or hinder interpersonal relationship?
Social media does not hinder the interpersonal Relationship
As I had noted in my week one assignment, social media is a group of internet-based
applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations that allow the creation
and exchange of user generated content. Examples of common social media sites include
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn among others. Social media helps to keep us connected with
friends and family that probably we would not have connected with.
As noted in the above introduction, social media helps us to keep connected with other
people. We make friends easily through social media than we would without the social media.
This means that with social media, we are able to keep the bond between us as strong as possible
regardless of the distance between us. Assume for instance a case where you have a friend whom
you have grown together and developed a strong bond of friendship. Then that friend is required
to move out of the country and go to another country for work or further studies. This means that
you will spend some years without being physically together. If the two of you are in social
media, the distance will not matter, as you can communicate any time you want. Bearing in mind
that the cost of communication via the social media is lower than say telephone calls, you can
therefore chat on WhatsApp and Facebook as much as you like. This will keep you connected
and when the friend is back to the country, no matter how long they were away, you will feel like
you have been together all the time and your relationship will be as stronger as it was initially
(Burton, 2013).
On the contrary, if the same situation occurs in a case where there is no social media, it
would mean that the two of you go for months or years without communication. Naturally, when
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you go for a long time without communicating to another person, the bond that exists between
you two weakens and eventually you end up replacing them with a person who is a bit closer to
you. This will mean that when your friend will be back to the country, you will not be as great
friends as you used to be (Jurgens, 2013).
From the above illustration, it can be seen that social media is used to strengthen the
interpersonal relationship. Social media allows you to keep in con tact with your friends and
relatives. It allows you to share funny videos and memes with them. All this adds up spice to
your relationship and when you are physically together, you feel very free and open with each
other. This strengthens the bond between you (Butler & Matook, 2015).
Social media also opens an avenue for people to connect with people all across the globe.
This aspect helps in making our minds open as we interact with people who come different
environment from us. We exchange ideas and learn from them as they learn from us too. In the
process, we get to understand the significance of relating well with every human kind. We can
then transfer what we have learnt into our real lives. For instance, a person will ask themselves a
question like, “if I can be a good friend from a person who comes from a different country, why
can’t I be a good friend to my next-door neighbor?” such a challenge will only make us relate
well with our friends and relatives.
I therefore conclude by noting that social media is an important tool that helps us to keep
connected and share great moments that spices up our relationships. Social media helps to
strengthen the bond that exists between us and therefore, does not hinder any interpersonal
relationship.
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References
Butler, B. S., & Matook, S. (2015). Social media and relationships. The International
Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society.
Burton, V. (2013, June). Social media: its emerging importance and impact on citizen
engagement. In International Affairs Forum (Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 98-100). Routledge.
Jurgens, D. (2013). That’s What Friends Are For: Inferring Location in Online Social Media
Platforms Based on Social Relationships. ICWSM, 13, 273-282.
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