Social Networking keeps people in contact. It allows you to maintain a relationship more easily with someone far away, it allows you to find someone you used to be close with, and it even allows you to create new relationships (although those can be a bit more iffy). Certain people may become “obsessed” with facebook or other social networking sites..but there are always people who become obsessed with anything that is put out. Some people really love…I don’t know..Scrabble…and they have a “scrabble phase” where maybe they play a little bit too much Scrabble for a time period, but they don’t become addicts. Scrabble is not like heroin and either is social networking.
I think the real problem is internet in general….you click..read a few things..look at a picture.. watch a video..a minute passes..then another click…you repeat this over and over..how can that not be affecting your attention span? I thought I was just an impatient person, but the more I talk to people it seems like everyone is an impatient person. Waiting in lines? Ridiculous! Waiting in general is aggravating. We can’t sit still and concentrate on the same thing for more than hour, probably even less. You are probably ready to not be reading this blog..because it’s too long..and you can’t concentrate on it anymore…so i’ll wrap it up.
People might get really into social networking sites, but it’s not going to effect their daily lives. Cyber chat will never be a replacement for social interaction. It might make people a little more awkward when they do socially interact..but that’s okay..because sometimes awkward people are funny. The thing to worry about is our shortening attention spans. Pretty soon everyone will have some form of a.d.d. and maybe it’s not just the internet that’s at fault. Maybe our society is molding to our increased impatience which only makes us more impatient!
Ok..you can click to something else now.
