Social Networking: Good or Bad?

Human society cannot exist and develop without communication. People communicate with each other to meet the needs of love and being loved, which have been developing throughout human history. We communicate through sounds, symbols, and words. But nowadays, thanks to the information technology, email, chat groups, Facebook, and many more, are the major and most popular social media which are used widely and have a deep effect on human communicate. 

 Over the past few years, technology has rapidly developed and changed the way people communicate. As the result, many social networking like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have emerged. These are some of the common websites that are familiar to a lot of people and quite often we hear about them on TV, or of course in the internet. These platforms allow the users to share their personal information and get connected with friends and family members around the world. The popularity of using online social network has immediately become one of our daily necessities and one of couple things we could not live without. It has become a daily activity in many of people’s life. The popularity of using online social network as a way of how we communicate has spread remarkably among the online users. 

Social networking is a popular form of communicating with friends around the corner and around the world. It allows Internet users to register and create a personal profile and communicate with selected others who are in the follower list. When we talk about friendship in real life so-called “friend” on Facebook or MySpace, we define each term separately. Friends we have in real life have strongly embedded to our private lives, with a build of trust and strong empathy to each other. While in MySpace or in any other platforms, when a certain Internet user has, for instance thousands of friends, it is extremely hard to think that he or she could actually exchange social interaction with all of them, and that he or she could consider them as real friends. However, human beings are social creatures. At such, social networking is based on a need to connect and expand connection. 

 

Here is an article that is relevant to the topic from American Psychological Association: 

http://www.sciencecodex.com/social_networkings_good_and_bad_impacts_on_kids

Social networking can be beneficial but it could have great negative impacts on individuals. It creates a tremendous risk in privacy, safety, social skills, and health. Networking, at best, could bring people around the world together, but at worst, the social skills deteriorate and is extremely dangerous for children as well as adults when networkers are unaware of predators lurking in the network.