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Facetime Samantha Sangiorgio FaceTime is a video and audio chatting platform created by Apple. The platform allows users to communicate face to face. Compared to traditional forms of calling, FaceTime allows users to not only hear but also see facial expressions making the call more interactive, fun, and meaningful. FaceTime has evolved to become a positive addition to virtual communication, mimicking a form of regular human contact. In today’s media saturated world, the young generation have been growing up with new forms of technology that has impacted their upbringing and experiences. FaceTime has played an important role in helping young people build connections and socialize with friends and family especially when in person interactions may not be possible. It is important to note that screen time has clearly taken up a great deal of adolescent’s lives but using it in healthy ways by balancing and limiting it can contribute to an improved youth’s health and well-being. FaceTime can maintain relationships as well as build and develop social skills. At times, text messaging and other forms of written communication can convey the wrong tone, emotion, facial expressions, gestures and body language. Furthermore, youth lose face to face communication skills as they lack people skills and may get too comfortable communicating behind the screens. FaceTime then becomes a great medium for youth to still engage in online communication. The real meaning of the message still remains through the medium as face-to-face conversation is still present allowing facial expressions and tones to be better interpreted. FaceTime also provide youth with communication all over the world. Many families and relatives do not have the opportunity to live in the same cities around the world and are not able to see one another for long periods of time. FaceTime has given families a way of
