Social networking, I can safely say, has taken over my life, any possible time I can; I check Facebook. Not that anything interesting happens on there, but I might find out who’s eating what or who’s “in a relationship” or who had a good/bad weekend - but why do I care? Well, I don’t actually care, I just, for some reason, have the need to know. I started writing this blog about half an hour ago, and because of Facebook, this is how far I’ve got.
I think a positive social benefit of social networking is being able to reunite with old friends who you’ve not been in contact with in years. It’s hard to loose contact, if getting a new phone, you loose all your contacts then just type them in on Facebook and you’ll find them. 1 in 3 people in Britain are Facebookers, so it’s not difficult to find them. Also, in a class of 20 people at college 90% of students have Facebook.
:) .. that means I’m happy? :( .. and that means I’m sad? Or do they both just mean I’m lazy? A negative social benefit is not being able to show emotion, people mislead text a lot and without emotion from facial expressions or body language things can be taken the wrong way completely!
Organizing an event on a social network site can be much easier than sending out invitations in the post, phoning your whole contact list on your phone or texting.
Social networks are ruining relationships, they create fake friendships and cause friends falling out. Soon the number of facebookers will double and then will nobody be seen anymore because everyone is at home on Facebook?
Social networks tell us more than we need to know about some people, we don't need to know what people do 24/7.
Without facebook, right now, I would of finished this blog hours ago and would be socialising with my friends OUTSIDE. You can't miss what you never had and if we never had social network sites then I suppose a lot of people wouldn't have as many "friends" and a lot of people would be fitter and healthier.. I guess..
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