Internet is a double-edged sword, which has advantages and disadvantages for interpersonal communication. Its advantages and disadvantages are as follows.

Advantages:

Expand the scope of interpersonal communication. Internet can expand the scope of interpersonal communication, broaden communication channels and promote the emergence of new ways of interpersonal communication. In the past, some people who were difficult to get to know each other due to geographical barriers, or who were difficult to become friends in real life due to personality reasons, can find new friends through the Internet with the protection and support of virtual coats, which greatly meets people's needs for social communication.

Because the purpose of online dating is simple, we can get friendship more quickly. The characteristics of the Internet give people a feeling of relative security and privacy, which makes people's personal space in crowded modern cities better protected.

2. promote people's personality. Social Psychoanalysis of China pointed out that online social groups are not only the extension of real social groups, but also different from real social groups. Its social role is uncertain, its social relationship is loose, and its sense of group and belonging is weak. In vain? In the quasi-world, gender, race and age are all fluid. In real life, a person is given an identity. In the online world, your identity is your own identity.

In social networking, people can speak freely through virtual identities and open platforms, without being restricted by identities and authority, which makes people? The personality is publicized. In addition, the "small group"-style network, especially the public exchange platform organized because of the similarity of interests and opinions, also makes the views supported by their own groups win through the social support function within the group. To self-reinforcement.

Disadvantages:

The role of interpersonal alienation. There is no doubt that the Internet has broken away from the limitations of time and place and narrowed the distance between distant friends. But interestingly, from another perspective, it has widened the distance between people. Loneliness and isolation between people, people have long been addicted to the obstacles of virtual world to interpersonal communication in real life.

Internet social addiction. People have been worried about teenagers' internet addiction for many years, but recently, there has been a new phenomenon of "adult internet addiction" on the Internet. The former is mainly obsessed with online games and pornographic websites, while the latter is a typical victim of online socialization. Some small games developed on social networking sites, such as QQ Farm, some rich forums and the newly emerging Weibo, have made many people enjoy it.