May/June 2013 Issue Social Media and Interpersonal Communication By Maura Keller Social Work Today Vol. 13 No. 3 P. 10 Glance around a restaurant and you'll be hard-pressed to find people who don't have their heads down using their cell phones to text, Tweet, or update their Facebook statuses-all while sharing a meal with others at their table.

Social media may have revolutionized communication, but it threatens our ability to communicate. Without the benefit of body language, we are operating with a major deficit.