The world has changed and the basic necessities of the people have also changed. A person can live without food “if” he tries, he can live without water “if” he tries, he can live without anything in the world “if” he tries ...... But he just can’t live without a computer, more so, without the internet. To be more specific, he just cannot live without social networking. Simply put, this has become the Era of Social Networking.
Orkut, Facebook, Twitter – these terms have become a part and parcel of our lives. Everyone keeps in touch with others through the internet and by everyone, I mean “EVERYONE”. Politicians like Barack Obama, Shahi Tharoor, journalists like Barkha Dutt of NDTV, authors like Chetan Bhagat, sportstars like Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Narain Karthikeyan, film stars (absolutely everyone in this field), iconic people like Lalit Modi, and even people like The Dalai Lama- everyone has an account on a major social networking site, just like you and me.
So why exactly do people join SN sites? There are various reasons for this, but here are the few things that I feel are the real crowd pullers of SN sites.
1) Friends - SN sites are a place for friends, friends and more friends. SN sites help to build this huge chain of friends by a simple three point mechanism:
· Keep in touch with old friends.
· Establish strong relationship with your friends – past and present.
· Make new friends.
How many ever reasons there may be for people to join SN sites, this will remain as the ultimate reason. After all SN sites are a huge treasure chest of friends.
2) It helps you break your pot of emotion - Everyone has something in their hearts that is like a big burden in their life . It maybe something that cannot be explained verbally. But on SN sites, there is absolutely nothing that cannot be expressed with your fingers. Just pour out your feelings and you’ll find that you have so many people who support you – so many people to lend their hand and pull you back up when you fall down.
3) It is a huge motivating factor- SN sites maybe just a place to keep in touch with friends, but there is something about them that can ignite a fire in you. The support of your friends can motivate you so much so that you can even make the impossible, possible. So the next time some weird ‘Octopus Paul’ application on Facebook tells you that you can’t do something that you want to do, then just say to yourself “Even if the real Octopus Oracle tells me that I can’t do it, I will do it so, no damn Facebook Octopus can stop me”.
SN sites have become the ultimate place to share your joy, your sorrow, your gain and your pain.
There are still many people who think that usage of SN sites is “wrong” and “punishable”. They feel that we do not use it in a right way, we don’t know about staying safe online, and we are just wasting our time on things like this. Well to all those people who think so, please understand that nothing is created with inbuilt disadvantages. It all depends upon its use. The same hold good for SN sites too. Its purpose is fulfilled only when we use it in the right way. So it is our duty to use SN sites in the right way, throw light on their real advantages and use them to make it big in this “social” world.
LOVE U SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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