THE FACEBOOK GENERATION

These days when we make new friends the first thing we ask "Are you on Facebook, orkut, twitter…etc?" That’s what we call the generation of social networking… Words such as tweeting, blogging, scrapping ---which wouldn't have made any sense to anybody a few years back, are being used with such spontaneity today… Well…thats the impact social networking has created on our lives..Right from the way we talk, the way we interact or the way we think… it has taken a toll on everything…

Social networking has revolutionized the way people, esp. students communicate & interact with each other… & a huge credit for this goes 2 “Facebook” , the biggest social networking site which was created by three college students in the year 2004.

Facebook or Fb (as it is commonly called) has become an integral part of most of our lives…& has caught with the young & old around the globe…

Facebook has had a tremendous impact on today's “technologically advanced society”… The best part about it is that it allows people, who probably never would have met each other in person, to communicate with each other, create new relations and friendships & reconnect with the old 1’s... It is a different world altogether… & the most amazing thing is that sites like facebook, twitter…etc. provide a platform for the individuals to express their views n ideas & in true sense give them the freedom of choice and expression... Actually there is something for everyone to share… All this is just a click away..!!!

Positives apart there is something we need to worry about & thats the element of “addiction” consciously or unconsciously we are all indeed getting drawn into it … some experts have estimated that most of the people now spend AT LEAST 50 % of their waking time online.. Facts like these have prompted a lot of companies to block access to all the social networking websites in the office premises….

Addiction to such websites has led to several alarming consequences…. A lot of time we hear people specially college goers saying “How can we imagine a life without facebook !! ” This itself says it all… The network is no longer limited to people we know. It extends beyond boundaries of nations and to people we haven’t even met before.. This has led to several security issues leading to Facebook being banned in some countries. Although Facebook has taken several steps to prevent occurrence of such issues but still we cannot rely much on it…Personal content on net is not “Safe” yet…

But all said and done, I think such websites have a lot more to offer than we can actually imagine… They have become an indispensable part of our life today…Whether we like it or not….

And as they say- “like it or hate it u sure can’t ignore it “…!! :)

& to be honest even I can’t live without it… :)