It isn’t too long since the facebook mania has haunted people. I read different blogs, articles on how facebook is much better which made me create an account. Guess what, all my friends were already in it.
I remember my first day in facebook, I was trying to understand the application and I had 35 requests already. These were not friend’s requests but requests to join some application. For a while I stayed away from it, but I confess facebook monster took me down. I too started with Mafia Wars and Café World. Phewww… It was difficult to delete it completely from my account.
I have observed that, a social network is a social structure between certain individuals that demonstrates how they are connected, whether they are casual acquaintances or if they have a close personal relationship. We went to a party the other night and met few people through a friend. Eventually I started hanging out with them, so thought of adding them to my “Facebook” account. Again woohoo hoo … All my other friends have already added them. This is a cool way for people to meet, make friends and eliminate possible awkward conversations.
But has anyone thought of the availability of your personal profile on the Internet for many people to see, even recruiters for that matter.
Also the time that is spent to play those games. Trust me on this, you get addicted to them no matter how firm you are.
A social skill is one of the most critical topics today. Being able to hold conversations and relate to other people helps people not only in their business lives but also in their daily lives. With the creation of, first, instant messenger and now Facebook, the young generation is beginning to become more dependent on these technologically based ways of communicating. Facebook makes it easier to meet a people, which as everyone knows, is the most difficult part of starting a relationship, but do we realize that we are becoming addicted and dependent upon this social network. If we continue to constantly use these social networks as our primary means of communicating I fear our social skills will slowly diminish. I fear the day when people will fail to have face-to-face conversations.
Ahhh.. Am I taking this to extremes?
Anyways! I am not a frequent facebook visitor anymore, but I agree I met many of my old friends through facebook. Facebook has always given you options, using which you can control your profile and your available information. Facebook may seem like another pointless website for people to waste their time on and I have definitely witnessed many people waste an unfathomable amount of time on it, Facebook is an easy way to keep in touch with old friends and meet new people and if used properly will not hinder but enhance people’s social skills.
