Social Netwoking: Social Or Antisocial?

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Social Networking: Social or Antisocial? Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, MySpace... Social networks have become one of the biggest influences, if not the biggest influence on people’s lives all around the globe over the past ten or so years. The vast number of different views and opinions, both supporting and opposing social networking make it a very controversial topic. Furthermore studies and real life examples can be used to reinforce either point of view. This hugely popular phenomenon will be explored in the following paragraphs and ultimately evaluated to discern whether social networking truly is social or antisocial. Firstly, social networking allows people the chance to stay up to date with friends and family much more frequently and provide a variety of different methods to do so. Facebook, for example has at least five different ways to keep in touch and up to date with friends and family; posting your news for everyone to see and comment on, privately sending messages to specific people, sharing photographs, videos and inviting people to attend events you have created. These are especially useful for keeping in touch with long distance relatives. In many cases the increased communication has brought people who have never met, but who have similar interests, together. Even people who have had social anxiety in the past have shown signs of recovery; they have become more comfortable interacting online and creating new relationships and friendships. It is suggested this is due to there being less inhibitions to overcome the disorder. Keeping up to date with people online, however, is not an everlasting capability: Losing connection to the internet means losing connection to everyone else that is online and therefore whomever you were communicating with at the time. There is also the possibility of people not knowing when enough is enough. Some people

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