Social Networks – An Addiction
Having wasted the better part of the morning, and most mornings, staring at Facebook and bringing up-to-date my MySpace, I can accept that social networks are addicting and can fritter away hours and hours in a day. I can also remember back to when I was going to a regular office job and a large part of the day was spent checking who posted, checking it like it was the stock exchange. Often I get replies from people I haven’t been in touch with in years or who I hardly know anymore, in addition to the regular circle of contacts who habitually check each other’s updates as if it was their [job|duty} to do so.
Psychiatrists go as far as saying that today people amplify their own identities through their Internet presences. To put it differently, Facebook and MySpace have turned into a sense of who we really are as individuals. I suppose this is true, as it is a place we decide what people see, and have no trouble letting everyone all around the world see in order to get updates as to who we are and what we are doing. However there are those who spend over 30-40 hours on the internet a week on such sites, and they are dependent. People have expected the internet to substitute other recreational areas of their world. Unhappily for many of today’s youth, this means a fall in outdoors activity, and for grown-ups it can mean a fall in social interaction with their acquaintances and/or family.
They say opportunity creates the criminal,’ but in this situation, ‘social networks inspire the spy.’ The quantity of information one can access on another individual makes it easy to follow their every action. Yes it is that person, who posts photos and approves being tagged in others, as well as making public information, but others also posts on walls and those messages are [public|open} but may not be pre-approved by the individual before they go live. We easily get addicted to stalking someone once they see someone else is posting on their wall, or that they have posted new images. Tabbed browsing, email alerts, and mobile applications, all cater to the social network addict, making it [easier|more conceivable} for them to constantly be looking at their profiles and others’ as well. Experts advise setting time limits, and generally exercising self discipline against repeatedly checking or signing up for email notifications, and not to install mobile apps for the social networks.
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