After a number of years of entering the social networking sphere, I realised that social networking has become an integral part of our daily lives. People updating their profiles with status updates that have no meaning, no need and on top of that a number of idiots will keep "LIKING" the posts.
I mean, seriously, what is there to like about a post that reads.. "Just landed in Delhi".... Good for u man.. many other people must have landed along with u right?? Its not like you landed on the moon... and to top it all, there will be someone liking this status update... WOW!!!
I am no better.... for the past few months, I have realised that I probably have never been this active on any website ever, as I have been on Facebook... I keep logging in to the website and stay logged on for hours altogether, just waiting for status updates to comment on, or pictures to be uploaded.
The common thought that harbors in every mind is that, Social networking, though, has helped us all to come close to the people we want to keep in touch with, has also made us very lazy and dependant. I mean, lets face it, if we wanted to keep in touch with someone, we would have made the effort to keep in touch. We dont need a social networking site to help us out. Topping it off, will be that fact that many "friends" on the friends list will be there because you need your "MAFIA WARS" family or "FARMVILLE" family to grow.
Many people, including me, would keep saying this that it has helped us get back in touch with our school friends with whom we had lost contact. NOW, on a more serious note, lets take some time, and think this out. We would have probably a minimum of 100 plus friends from which our school friends could amount to about just 20. Do we actually keep in touch with those 20 on a daily or even a weekly basis?? Lets face the truth.. We dont!!!!
What we probably need to do, is to start realising who actually mean something to us, and make the effort to actually talk to them and make them feel that they are special to us........ just a thought....
