At a time when social networking sites are becoming a kind of rage amongst the millions of Internet users, have you ever wondered how they are developing into a 'root cause of losing sleep' when it comes to individual space. Credited with stimulating political uprisings, easiness and pace of communications they are, in fact, turning out to be deterrents, transforming the way people respond and correspond.
A number of incidents are happening in our daily life which one can call a sort of social disconnect.
Such is the negative trend catching up that everyone attached online is feeling a pinch of social detachment one way or the other. Though having a social networking life nowadays is next only to a voter ID or a passport, there are some who realize that living on social networking sites can at times, be much more intricate than actual life.
In this way, married or committed couples are not the only sufferers of what experts explain as 'hasty social networking behaviour.'
From school-goers to those working in corporate firms, people have more or less a similar kind of story to share in this regard. The world is waking up more and more to the unkind truths of online social association.
Experts say these sites are not the best media to express emotions that govern personal equations. A lot thus gets distorted in translation.
The young people nowadays seem to be losing emotional intellect because they scarcely have personal interactions. People are breaking up with their girlfriends or boyfriends over their posts.
One of the lasting results, experts point out, is that the conventional norms of communication are changing. This causes the nature of relationships between people to change. For instance, one expert talks of an incident in a school where a 14- year-old student was reprimanded by the teacher, and the student went to the teacher's Facebook page and wrote some malicious and distasteful words, hurting the self-esteem of that teacher. While conversations are also turning into competitions, as every - one has a view - but who has it first is what matters - these sites have also become a medium to emit our disappointments. But what students do not understand is that, most of the time, they end up hurting the other person intensely. There is very little care taken to ensure it does not happen. Besides, the experts say that most parents do not know how to tackle these situations because these issues are only as new as Twitter or Facebook.
The Trouble Students Face
However, even students also face such troubles. When they get into insignificant quarrels at school, these sites become their means to convey payback. One such student referred to the example of her classmates who were attacked on Facebook where their fake accounts were made with derogatory middle names. She said, "Since it's very simple to obtain the profile pictures of people, they copy-pasted that and some guys added some derogatory stuff in the 'activities' section." However, they are not alone. There are innumerable other cases, where people feel vulnerable and unsafe in the cyberspace where one cannot recognize one's so-called rivals.
On the contrary, living in the social networking world has amazing pluses as well. According to a Bangalore-based counseling firm: "There are a number of instances where people in undeviating relationships have become involved with people from their past and it has been devastating to them leading to unwanted split-ups. There is indeed a pattern shift in the way people interacted earlier and how they do now, marked by the expressions used, the attitude and the frequency."
Also, the increasing rate at which this is taking place has left people beleaguered by the medium. Feel experts, "The manner of communication is shifting. The conventional approach of communication is dying fast. So, there needs to be a new order, a novel protocol, to rectify the degrading relationships."
The concept of social networking appears to be a taste of the times. Since it is a 'constructed social community', people do not know how to tackle it.
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