With the proliferation of mobile technology, social media has revolutionized communication. Statistics showed that more than 90% of the 3.3 million Internet users in Singapore visit social networking sites, with Whatsapp, Youtube and Facebook taking the lead. However, are our online social life overriding our real social life or supplementing it? Is social media making us less social instead? There are a few reasons why social media improves our connectivity. Firstly, social media greatly alleviates
interaction; how diverse discourse communities sort out things with words; how identities are built in and through talk; the relationship between interaction and learning in both formal and informal educational contexts; and—more recently—how the presentation of self in texts (written and oral, in one modality or in multiple modalities, in isolation or in a group) might be changed by a number of factors including race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality as well as context, situation, audience, purpose