Mark Zuckerberg may not be as popular as his creation but he is a billionaire and is prospering day by day. Facebook . Yeah, thats the near perfect name of his social networking service , with about 0.5bn users at the time of writing. It has really become the face of the youngsters of the middle-upper class society having instant access to the internet. Its a boom for the social networking sites that they have made these sites their primary way of conversing , discussing , promoting , entertainment and passtime. It seems as if a new language "Facebooking" is in the air. People are able to connect to their old acquaintances and friends , able to make new friends even before visiting some new place may be their university or workplace, promote some idea or some event or their community .But it doesn't seems to stop there, even the elderly are aboard. They feel delighted being connected to their children , able to chat with them and upload family photos to keep up with the kinship . Consequently , even the best of the organizations, businesses , celebrities, communities have made sure they leverage of this cost free advertising opportunity - pages on Facebook promoting them. It seems as if these networking sites are of unprecedented advantage to the mankind except for the very obvious issues of hacking of profiles, aspersions ,illicit use of photos of unknown people. But seldom people care about these grave security issues and seem to follow "parking at your own risk" trend.
But thats not how I ( and certainly some others if not many ) feel about this social networking aura and talk about the dark side of using Facebook and other social networking sites. There is an overlooked and a mass damaging aspect to it. No, its no internet virus, as you may have guessed but something much more demolishing. Its the young human capital , the most powerful pillar of the society, of a nation. Today youngsters are considered to be driving the economy . I take this step to juxtapose the two and they seem to show considerable friction. Read on.
The most lucid and observable consequence is the hindrance in the academic ,especially technical, performance of these Facebook freaks. They talk Facebook every now and them . They waste their precious hours on commenting over others statuses , thinking about theirs, rummaging profiles, looking at the accessible photos, making unknown people as friends ,especially people who feel having a crush on them . And they never realize when they started chatting with someone and its more than an hour. People have become so much enamored by this trend that they never forget checking updates even on some important exam night, and otherwise spend the whole night crawling unknown peoples' profiles and frequently missing the morning classes. Thats the case even in the best of universities and workplaces.
Now Mark can't be put to blame for the unforeseen effects of his creation. We already know about its pleasurable advantages. But then every coin has two different faces. The dark face of Facebook is the emerging concern. People who might have devoted their time in actually being social , communicating to large no. of people or researching upon their subjects would have produced a much better workforce and students' soft skill are dumping their talents.
Facebook may help them today in making new friends and doing promotions but it won't back them for their future prospects when we will really have to do real face to face communication. It will be much better if youngsters today append Facebooking to their list of tasks and will make us a better resource else Mark will continue to be a billionaire, today and tomorrow, but our dreams today will become our frustration tomorrow.
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