This paper has concluded how Facebook and phubbing behaviors affect Thai
users’ interpersonal communication skills and relationships. With many benefits of
Social Networking Sites presented, there are numbers of negative impacts as well.
Unknowingly, constantly checking Facebook and phubbing behaviors have been
harming how humans’ maintenance and development of their offline relationships.
Social Networking Sites have changed the way we communicate by relying on virtual
interactions and required less face to face communication. To build and maintain a
relationship, it is a process of communicating and the level of revelation of personal
thoughts and feelings. Bad communication is one of the major factors that harm
interpersonal relationships and phubbing (noise in communication) limits the ability
of listening. Facebook strongly lacks nonverbal cues and emotions (reactions) which
are the extension of listening in communication. No communication is taken place if
not no one is listening. Good communication of the sender and receiver results in
maintaining and developing deep relationship intimacies.