Nowadays, many people spend less and less time with family. Why is this happening? How does this affect individuals and their families?

The past 50 years have witnessed a dramatic hike in the tendency of individuals to solely spend their free time.

This

is mainly because of the growing popularity of social media platforms.

However

, there are a number of impacts on individuals and families. Chief among the contributing factors to

this

trend is the upsurged utilization of various communication websites.

This

means that when spending a vast amount of time surfing

such

platforms,individuals will be hindered from communicating with parents and siblings, and they will choose to relate to

such

a visual world because it is much easier and effortless. One particularly salient example of

this

is the Facebook application which empowers people with various means of visual communication in order to lure them to socialize through

this

application rather than physical ones. As for the consequences, teenagers and their families would certainly bear the brunt of

this

phenomenon in terms of increased crime rates and the loss of family value.

In other words

, if adolescents tend to spend more time solely and isolate themselves from their fosters, increasingly will they be vulnerable to violence

as a result

of the absence of parental supervision. An eminent example of

this

is the prevalence of alcoholism and drug dealing among youth these days. One

further

influence relates to distorted families and the increase in divorce rates which have resulted from the lack of shared interests between partners and children will suffer from the detrimental impacts of social seclusion

such

as depression and behavioural changes In conclusion,

this

is a problem of

such

complexity that no solution is likely in the short term.

Additionally

, the impacts mentioned above could result from

this

trend.