Addicted to Twitter?
Quitting Facebook next week?
Facebook admits privacy errors, plans new settings...
They don't come from me rather they come from the famous news magazines all over the world.
Yes, infact, its true that people have fall addict to Social Networks. People enjoy spending time in them, more than doing something good. Having a good relationship with friends is good. Does social networking show the true relationship?
Filmmaker Karan Johar admits, "I am obsessed with Twitter. Twitter has become my spouse as I can share every emotion that I want to with the people on it. And going by my fixation, I can say that I might need help to overcome it in future." Singer Lily Allen has branded the site as "very addictive and dangerous". "Anything which is done in extreme can be addictive.
There has been an increase in complaints by parents about childs' obsession with social networking especially on Twitter. One of the parents came during their daughter's board exams saying that she wasted an hour every day Twitter and Facebook," says Dr Aarti Anand, consulting clinical psychologist, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
"The need for people to be connected with others and the high that one gets with knowing that so many people are reading what I tweet has people hooked on to Twitter. The celebrity presence adds to the damage. And the easy access through mobiles and through applications (like tweetdeck) on the iPhone and Blackberry makes matters worse," says Dr Amitabha Saha, senior consultant, psychiatry, Brainex.
These are not stories, but facts published in the famous newspapers. Getting addicted to one thing is infact a great pain. They believe in virtual relationships than the real. The psychological reason behind these is that they are focused just like celebrities among their friends in the virtual world. This mirage hides their eyes and makes them addicted to these networks. Bringing them back to the normal life is somewhat difficult.
A simple check for addiction: Constantly feels the need for checking some social networking site and it hampers your day-to-day activities and productivity
The next problem is the privacy issue encountered in these sites. For the last two weeks, Facebook had been the target of attack for almost many organisations and newspapers for the Privacy issues. Facebook, itself had admitted this issue last week.
Facebook has often come in for criticism of its privacy policy, whose default setting is to allow large amounts of personal data to be viewed and searched by the public. Criticism grew following the introduction of new features recently that extended Facebook buttons across numerous internet sites and could have exposed users' browsing habits to others.
Moreover, it would be advisable not to make personal conversations, whatever issue it may be concerned with, over the social networks. Personal should always be dealt personally and public can be deal publicly. Social networks are not a channel to pass your personal issues to others.....
Don't get addicted to social networks and safeguard your privacy.....!
Think thrice before you print this!
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