Social skills consist of having the ability to interact effectively in social contexts and to understand and productively exploit one's own and others' personality structures. others. Social skills overlap with communication skills. Under social skills, three main elements are needed. The first is personal sympathy. The second element concerns expressiveness. The last element is social perception. Good social skills improve communication, increase effective team building, and reduce conflict while promoting unity (Sattler and Hoge, 396). Today's teenagers lack social skills; they are glued to their phones. When teens are on their phones, they always seem to be on social media. Social networks are now everywhere. From Facebook to Snap Chat, the trend is to communicate via social networks. Does social media really affect teenagers' social skills? Social media affects adolescents' social development and relationships, it affects their academic development, and it can also make them lazy and cause distractions. Social media has an effect on an adolescent's social development "The effects of social networking sites on the social and academic development of adolescents: Current issues and controversies." Journal of the American Society for Science and Technology, 62(8): 1435-1445. Internet. 2011. Price-Mitchell, Marilyn. “Disadvantages of social media: surprising ideas from teenagers.” Roots in Action.com. npnd Web. December 2, 2014. Sattler, Jerome and Robert Hoge. Assessment of children: behavioral, social, and clinical foundations. La Mesa: Sattler, 2006. Print. Subrahmanyam, K., Kraut, R., Greenfield, P., and Gross, E. “The Impact of Home Computer Use on Children's Activities and Development.” » Journal Issue: Children and Computer Technology, 10(2). npWeb. 2000. Young people demand, answers that work. Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. 2012.