Social Networks – An Addiction
Having spent the better part of the morning, and most mornings, gazing on Facebook and updating my MySpace, I can accept that social networks are addicting and can dissipate hours and hours in a day. I can also go back to when I was working a normal office job and a large part of the day was whiled away looking for who posted, looking it up like it was the stock exchange. Often I get replies from acquaintances I haven’t spoken to in years or who I hardly know anymore, in addition to the current group of friends who habitually check each other’s pages as if it was their [job|duty} to do so.
Psychiatrists go as far as saying that today individuals amplify their own identities through their Internet profiles. In other words, Facebook and MySpace have become a sense of who we really are as people. I guess this is real, as it is a place we control what people see, and have no problem allowing everyone all around the world see in order to secure updates as to who we are and what we are doing. Nevertheless there are people who devote in excess of 30-40 hours on the internet a week on such sites, and they are dependent. People have expected the internet to substitute other recreational avenues of their world. Unfortunately for many of today’s younger generation, this implies a fall in outdoors activity, and for grown-ups it can mean a drop in social conversation with their acquaintances and/or family.
They say opportunity creates the thief,’ but in this case, ‘social networks make the stalker.’ The quantity of material one can come across on another person makes it simple to spy on their every action. Yes it is that person, who posts pictures and endorses being tagged in others, as well as posting information, but everyone also advertises on walls and those messages are [public|open} but may not be pre-approved by the user before they go live. We easily get addicted to following someone once they see someone else is writing on their wall, or that they have put up new images. Tabbed browsing, email notifications, and mobile applications, all serve the social network addict, making it [easier|more conceivable} for them to constantly be looking at their profiles and others’ as well. Experts recommend setting time rules, and basically practicing self discipline against constantly looking at or receiving email notifications, and not to install mobile apps for the social networks.
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