Jake Hughes
The Paw Print
Social networking has a choke hold on today’s society. So many people are obsessed with what other people are doing and saying that they spend outrageous amounts of time trawling around on social networks. Social networking is turning into an addiction that is plaguing our nation.
People have a need to post pictures and statuses of everything they do. Do people have no personal thoughts and moments that they don’t feel the need to share with the world? Why do people have the urge to share everything?
We all know what networks I’m talking about, Facebook, Twitter; these are the main culprits that are changing the way we interact with each other. Don’t get me wrong I’m not just banging on at these networks because they do have some uses.
They are great for keeping in contact with friends and family that are in different countries or states. But, some people have hundreds even thousands of friends. I mean really, are all these people your friends or are they just random people who check out your lousy statuses, or all the hundreds of pictures you post, even who you are talking to? There are so many fake people on these networks. Everyone is trying to look good, or get that perfect pose so they can post it and show the world how fake they are.
Judging people goes hand in hand with all this stuff. We all do it, don’t say you don’t, that’s part of the whole obsession of posting all these pictures. We instantly judge a person or change our perceptions of person when they post things on their pages. We are all guilty of this, but, it’s a part of the social networking we have adopted into our culture.
Social networking has changed our culture in so many ways. The way we socialize, the way we get our news, the way we spend our disposable time, all this has changed due to the fact we can no longer up hold a normal conversation in person. Now, not everyone follows these rules and trends, but a large number of us do. We are all in a race to be accepted in a society where social networking is a big player.
Now social networking isn’t just for socializing and meeting new people. Big companies, sports teams, and other organizations use it for background checks. Every picture or post you put on your profiles is being examined to see what kind of person you actually are. Without a doubt there will be some pictures and posts we would regret being on there if we all knew the full extent of which these posts go.
There has to be a happy medium to this surely. I’m not saying that we banish social networking completely, however, we must figure out how to monitor this plague and come up with some kind of solution to fix our anti-social nation. Is there going to be an end to social networking? First it was MySpace, then Facebook and now Twitter is moving up there. What is next? What can they do to further the already existing addiction to socializing through a computer screen?
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