Social networking is a good idea. It is an easy way to stay in touch with our friends and people around us. It is doing a good job by bringing together people with similar interest groups and to collaborate for a common objective.
For businesses, it brings the target customers under one umbrella and is an effective way of marketing. It also gives them an effective medium to reach new clients and potential employees. It has made the whole world a small global village where geographical distances have a very little role to play.
But there are many things to ponder upon.
Many of us are too much addicted to social networking that we do not leave our rooms. We hardly get time for improving our own lives (reading or taking up a hobby). We are becoming reluctant to meet someone personally or hang out in a group. Is social networking making us less social?
Hasn’t the social networking increased the total number of friends but decreased the number of close friends? A research in the U.S says that average number of close friends of an individual has decreased from 3 to 2 in recent times.
A few days back, one of my friends expressed his dislike towards how people wish a person on his b’day via facebook. The personal touch that used to exist in birthday wishes is fading away. I totally agree with him. Woudn’t we all prefer receiving 5 personal calls with real warm wishes rather than receiving 500 wall messages just because our name appears on everybody’s wall in ‘Birthdays’ section?
Many a times people are more concerned about how to put an activity into a facebook status or how to click snaps for the sake of putting it on facebook. Aren’t we losing upon the real-time fun of any activity in doing so?
The personal information posted on public forums can be mined to be used against anyone. Hasn’t it made our personal life more public?
We live in a time where even a day away from social networking makes us feel as if are coming from a different planet the next day. Social networking has become a necessity. But how to maintain a balance between social networking and social life is what we have to figure out.
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Another point…. just for pondering over…
Apparently, my engineering background friends are more addicted to Facebook/other social networking sites than those who chose other career paths…
Yup! That’s the curse of engineering my friend!
Yep… May be because they are more exposed to it and find it hard to think beyond it. We engineers are all addicted!
totally true.
also, something else to think about… i see single people more on facebook ( or spending higher time)
All the statements in bold are something to seriously ponder over!
Sometimes when I hear about life in 1960s or 1970s, I envy them because things were less complicated and certainly not online!
You may want to reconsider what you think of “society” . People in Society need not be physically in contact with each other.
On this note, you should see the movie “The Social Network”. It gives quite a perspective on how face-book all began.
I think the one interesting thing that a Social Networking site does is, it helps create a buzz. I think it is much more effective than any other media right now. That of course is both good and bad. But it is indeed one very effective tool!
“The Social Network” is on my list.
And I certainly agree with the ‘pros’ side of social networking and mentioned in the post too. I just want to draw attention towards the ‘cons’ side as well. A ‘balance’ is what is required.
Very nice post! Crisp and to the point.. And the issue is seriously very relavant to the today’s times.
*relevant
@Sundeep:
Others have other things to do… 
@ Sufal: Thank you!
@ Himanshu: Opinion differs. That was my take.
Well written post
Compliments
my point exactly. so a simple solution would be to go find someone
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