Society places enormous value and credibility on the popularity and following that can be gained across various platforms. This has ultimately altered how we perceive the development of social cognition and in many cases this can be detrimental to how one interacts with others. Although a lot of importance is placed on social media, the professional world will not hire candidates based on the number of followers they have on Instagram. What will ultimately influence future and success in almost every career field will be the fundamental social cognition skills developed at a young age through face-to-face communication. Skills such as interpreting others feelings and actions, appropriate behavior and speech etc… These skills can only be achieved through the in-person interactions that our society so desperately fears to have. That said, social media can be a very valuable and useful tool. Websites like LinkedIn, which is exclusively for professional profiles, can help people find jobs and be placed where they want. There is good and bad when it comes to social media and how it affects how social cognition is developed, but society must embrace the good and use it to everyone's advantage to grow more opportunities for