Social Networking is hindering Social Skills

Am I sounding old fashioned to say that whatever the advantages of social networking, I am getting seriously worried by the outcomes it is producing.

I should also say that I am talking about all ages and not just young ones, though the signs are certainly worrying with them.

Nothing is sacred anymore and Facebook will let you into someone’s life on levels unprecedented in the past.

Is it that because they are using a keyboard to record even the darkest of secrets or opinions that it is forgotten that people can access it.

Would you say the same things so openly “one to one”?

Is it wise?

People are now being dismissed from work for misuse of this medium, which on some levels suggests some people have lost all sense of reason. It confirms an obsession.

Next time you are in a Library where people are on computers take a glance on how many are on Facebook!

Even Twitter, once so moderate and good humoured, has turned into a vile exchange that’s hard to comprehend.

It’s brought an International Society together and as usual it has attracted the best and worst of humanity but who’s winning?

I try to imagine anyone inviting some of these vilest of users into their homes.....and yet, that’s exactly what is happening.

Shut them out.

Perhaps people like dealing with others at arm’s length for comfort but getting relaxed, results in saying things you would not dream of normally.

Its changed peoples personalities and responses. Non verbal communication makes some timid in nature. For others they have redefined free speech as having no boundaries of any sort.

Perhaps some who struggle with real relationships substitute networks to feel popular.

This is deluded. Nothing beats a real friend you can go to a football match or to the cinema with.

In a world where most people suggest they have a right to privacy you have to wonder what they leave private on Facebook.

Be warned. This obsession makes you vulnerable and robs you of a real life experience that does not require a keyboard.

Get out and enjoy it before you forget how to speak and behave.

Whatever benefits have been gained, decency has been the cost.