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No # Social Networking sites like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook provide new opportunities for users to express their own opinions, find others with similar interests and experiences, and share and learn in a virtual environment.
# Business and entertainment benefits associated with these sites have made them a hit.
Yes # Social networking sites make users vulnerable to online predators.
# These sites fuel cyber bullying/terrorism and waste countless productive hours of users worldwide.
# Insecurity, Identity theft and lack of interoperability between these sites have significantly marred their usefulness.
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If you believe that discussing this is wastage of time then social networking is too.
Every coin has two sides, giving reasons that identity theft or similar problems arise from social networking sites then we should also ban credit cards or social security cards or any other cards as they can also lead to that. Come on best way to save your identity is not to have identity at all!
Every coin has two sides, giving reasons that identity theft or similar problems arise from social networking sites then we should also ban credit cards or social security cards or any other cards as they can also lead to that. Come on best way to save your identity is not to have identity at all!
This is not social-networking in the strict making-friends way. Social networks are just places where the weaklings hide. If a guy cannot get on with others in real life then she rushes to have friends online. I do not consider LinkedIn or say, job forums bad. But checking Facebook for on the fly scraps is surely deviant and ruinous...
Although the numbers of friends people have on these sites can be massive, the actual number of close friends is approximately the same then isn’t it wastage of time? On the other, social networking sites are the baseless things and more or less a boon for the predators and terrorists who can send information across comfortable away form the eye of all including security personals?
Secondly, the innumerable friend requests and useless news links waste more time than having tête-à-tête with real friends. More or less it’s a deception and your personal details can be misused for some malicious ends as well. So, for me it’s a useless thing meant for idle minds.
Secondly, the innumerable friend requests and useless news links waste more time than having tête-à-tête with real friends. More or less it’s a deception and your personal details can be misused for some malicious ends as well. So, for me it’s a useless thing meant for idle minds.
Following the reason that only weaklings hide behind social networking sites, then we can assume that we are also weaklings as we prefer to talk here rather in personal.
As Vinod said that the friends which we have on social networking sites are not close, I real can’t even tell about my friends as they are humans and may change tomorrow. Also I use social-networking sites to be more close to those people whom I know, making my friendship more close.
Also who are we decide what is a wastage of time, somebody may be calling us stupid saying that these people waste time writing their views online and then debating on it.
As Vinod said that the friends which we have on social networking sites are not close, I real can’t even tell about my friends as they are humans and may change tomorrow. Also I use social-networking sites to be more close to those people whom I know, making my friendship more close.
Also who are we decide what is a wastage of time, somebody may be calling us stupid saying that these people waste time writing their views online and then debating on it.
hey! why you all tend to be on the negative side... why don’t you see the good side. it’s so cost effective... you can share ideas with your close friends... I really enjoy it don’t force your shit on the others... I share my business ideas with the friends and colleges and it serves me well... then what is the harm... as far as security is concerned., it’s up to you...why to accept the friends request... and give too precise information about yourself and thats all... use good things, if all on the other side are looking for something bad always its nothing that we can do?
Well, as for as the close friends are concerned they’ll always remain the same – no addition in the number then what is the good use. If someone is merely conversing with his close friends only, then why to be the member of such sites? But how about the identity theft, threats of misusing your information… can you compromise with that?
Living in a technological age, social networking is one way of sharing your views to other people. It is related to the reality that through the internet, the world seems flat.
It doesn’t really matter if you know other people that well. What is important is the exchange of ideas that both ends of the world have.
You may agree or disagree to someone. Through that you learn from each other and you are able to examine your thoughts as to what you believe is right.
In this world, we can never be in agreement to all things with other nations. But through conflicts we are able to mingle and interact with each other.
Social networking is also one way of identifying your innermost thoughts to the people around the world. The interchange of communication serves as stronghold of realizing what a person thinks and looks into it more closely to the probabilities why an individual is thinking that way.
Maynard Delfin
Manila, Philippines
It doesn’t really matter if you know other people that well. What is important is the exchange of ideas that both ends of the world have.
You may agree or disagree to someone. Through that you learn from each other and you are able to examine your thoughts as to what you believe is right.
In this world, we can never be in agreement to all things with other nations. But through conflicts we are able to mingle and interact with each other.
Social networking is also one way of identifying your innermost thoughts to the people around the world. The interchange of communication serves as stronghold of realizing what a person thinks and looks into it more closely to the probabilities why an individual is thinking that way.
Maynard Delfin
Manila, Philippines
well good things always come with some loopholes but this is sheer foolishness to look for the friends online when we don’t have one in the virtual world... that too putting your security details at risk without knowing who the person on the other end is whom you are friend with... so only those who have time enough for these sites come to these otherwise its no for the layman... or a person who is too busy in his rotune... and those who are friend to none in the real world can never be friends on the net that is too insecure for a normal chap
@ ArjunM
To begin with this is NOT say, Orkut or Facebook...read my earlier comment and u seem to be bolstering argument in 2 ways:
a) By emotional rhetoric
b) By saying that such networking keeps u better connected to known buddies. But none is arguing about known people here, we are talking of all those anonymous people who might be lurking behind these sites.
In fact you may have a Lashkar militant talking to you as a friend without knowing it...real friendships can be helped by these sites but never online ones.
Vinod above is so right ...
To begin with this is NOT say, Orkut or Facebook...read my earlier comment and u seem to be bolstering argument in 2 ways:
a) By emotional rhetoric
b) By saying that such networking keeps u better connected to known buddies. But none is arguing about known people here, we are talking of all those anonymous people who might be lurking behind these sites.
In fact you may have a Lashkar militant talking to you as a friend without knowing it...real friendships can be helped by these sites but never online ones.
Vinod above is so right ...
@ rhapsodysinger
Hey I got friends who sympathize with terrorists, so it would be no problem for me even if a Lakshar terrorist is talking to me anonymously. I would enjoy it more then as I would get an another perspective of seeing the world and understanding how a ’terrorist’ thinks.
I really don’t understand you as you yourself has nowhere given your real name, please don’t tell me that rhapsodysinger is your name, and your location, come on we all know you are on internet but are you physically on some line Mcphury line :) Please do excuse my logic, I am just trying to bolster your arguments by emotional rhetoric.
And please do let me know when why anyone who has problems with unknown people becoming acquainted allows them to do so. Even the facebook and orkut people would love how they can further improve their sites.
”Vinod is so right”, how right? Hey do you know the minutes about your ’close’ friends lives? If yes then social networking is not for you, but if no ( which would be the answer in most of the cases) then how do you think there is a difference between your online and off-line friends?
Hey I got friends who sympathize with terrorists, so it would be no problem for me even if a Lakshar terrorist is talking to me anonymously. I would enjoy it more then as I would get an another perspective of seeing the world and understanding how a ’terrorist’ thinks.
I really don’t understand you as you yourself has nowhere given your real name, please don’t tell me that rhapsodysinger is your name, and your location, come on we all know you are on internet but are you physically on some line Mcphury line :) Please do excuse my logic, I am just trying to bolster your arguments by emotional rhetoric.
And please do let me know when why anyone who has problems with unknown people becoming acquainted allows them to do so. Even the facebook and orkut people would love how they can further improve their sites.
”Vinod is so right”, how right? Hey do you know the minutes about your ’close’ friends lives? If yes then social networking is not for you, but if no ( which would be the answer in most of the cases) then how do you think there is a difference between your online and off-line friends?
Is TV an idiot box? It is an idiot box if you watch like an idiot. The same logic applies here. It all depends how you perceive. In any case, social networking sites are not at all waste of time.
If you utilize the power of social networking in a constructive way, you will gain a lot. And vice versa. Here I don’t deny the fact that the security threat is there in social networking. However, we can avoid it by little cautious while engaging in social networking.
Social networking does not mean that making friends with anyone. For me, social networking means networking of friends who know each other before meeting at the sites.
If you utilize the power of social networking in a constructive way, you will gain a lot. And vice versa. Here I don’t deny the fact that the security threat is there in social networking. However, we can avoid it by little cautious while engaging in social networking.
Social networking does not mean that making friends with anyone. For me, social networking means networking of friends who know each other before meeting at the sites.
Absolutely not. I completely agree with Bhagaban when he says just like the TV turns to be the idiot box when you watch it as an idiot, social networking sites will turn to be an absolutely useless tool if you use them for the purpose that you want it to use.
If you are solely looking for recreation by meeting and interacting with strangers online, it will serve your purpose, if you are looking to find a date, it can help you, if you are looking for business networking, you can find people with similar business interests, if you are looking for meeting people with similar hobbies, tastes etc, you can find it, if you are looking forward to find targets for something that you want to promote you have it.
Contrary to the thoughts of people who think it is a waste of time, I believe social networking sites are perhaps the best thing that the internet has to offer after emails, search engines and instant messaging.
If you are solely looking for recreation by meeting and interacting with strangers online, it will serve your purpose, if you are looking to find a date, it can help you, if you are looking for business networking, you can find people with similar business interests, if you are looking for meeting people with similar hobbies, tastes etc, you can find it, if you are looking forward to find targets for something that you want to promote you have it.
Contrary to the thoughts of people who think it is a waste of time, I believe social networking sites are perhaps the best thing that the internet has to offer after emails, search engines and instant messaging.
No man is an island. Survival needs social interaction.
Networking socially is a new way of learning things. Through it, you begin to have a new perspective about different things.
You can never be taught about life through reading books alone. The world is too big to explore. Social networking is one of the ways.
Maynard Delfin
Manila, Philippines
Networking socially is a new way of learning things. Through it, you begin to have a new perspective about different things.
You can never be taught about life through reading books alone. The world is too big to explore. Social networking is one of the ways.
Maynard Delfin
Manila, Philippines
Yes, this kind of social interaction is merely waste of time and risky too. See, it’s always good to be in touch with our friends, family members and known people and it’s also the best thing if we are caring about the other relationships apart from being busy, but on the other hand that maintanence of relationships should be kind of meaningful. What’s the use of just going on saying hi, how r u and so on just for passing time, without even knowing who the person is what kind of person he/she is.
TV is an entertainment kit, if we want we will switch it on and if we don’t want to watch it we can off it. At the end TV will not exploit us, TV is not an unknown human being, so we are safe there. But this kind of interaction as carried with uknown people is a risk too. Ofcourse we may meet good poeple, but we should not forget the other side. It’s always good to think the positives and negatives before doing anything.
The same time if used in doing something productive will be great! Like for example write a mail to an old friend, family member, colleague or do a blog, or even chatting with your known friends is far far better then all these, nonsense things. There are so many messengers for chatting, where we can add our known friends, family members and office colleagues and chat with them in free time. Even there are many online teaching jobs, which i am part of, so try a hand in such great things, that will make you feel good and also the other’s around you. This would be more safer and also you can spend time and share ideas and thoughts in a productive and useful way.
Sometimes you may even end up making friendship with completely wrong people, we can’t predict what can happen, so it’s always good to be carefull in this non-secure world. Especially youngsters should try to divert themselves from getting into these things, as the youngster’s life is delicate at this point of life.
Let’s show a better path for the younger generation and let them lead a better life. Be happy and make other happy!
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda
TV is an entertainment kit, if we want we will switch it on and if we don’t want to watch it we can off it. At the end TV will not exploit us, TV is not an unknown human being, so we are safe there. But this kind of interaction as carried with uknown people is a risk too. Ofcourse we may meet good poeple, but we should not forget the other side. It’s always good to think the positives and negatives before doing anything.
The same time if used in doing something productive will be great! Like for example write a mail to an old friend, family member, colleague or do a blog, or even chatting with your known friends is far far better then all these, nonsense things. There are so many messengers for chatting, where we can add our known friends, family members and office colleagues and chat with them in free time. Even there are many online teaching jobs, which i am part of, so try a hand in such great things, that will make you feel good and also the other’s around you. This would be more safer and also you can spend time and share ideas and thoughts in a productive and useful way.
Sometimes you may even end up making friendship with completely wrong people, we can’t predict what can happen, so it’s always good to be carefull in this non-secure world. Especially youngsters should try to divert themselves from getting into these things, as the youngster’s life is delicate at this point of life.
Let’s show a better path for the younger generation and let them lead a better life. Be happy and make other happy!
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda
@ rhapsodysinger
Your arguments are ridiculous.
1. >> Social networks are just places where the weaklings hide. If a guy cannot get on with others in real life then she rushes to have friends online.
I want to have a friend from a country/region where I have never been to so that I learn a few things about the culture there, the unique things the place has to offer etc., and presuming that local knowledge is what the best you can get, how on earth can I do it unless making online friends? Your argument that socially challenged people who cannot make friends in real life go on to make friends online. I refute that primarily for 2 reasons:
a) It is baseless. I have many friends online on the social networks as I have in my real life. Besides, there is no harm for socially challenged people making online friends.
b) Weaklings are people like you who hide under anonymous names without a real image to display online. In fact, weaklings are wary of making friends or remain in the dark and due to the perennial inferiority complexes they suffer for known/unknown reasons or have something to hide, unbeknownst to whomsoever it may concern.
2. >> In fact you may have a Lashkar militant talking to you as a friend without knowing it... real friendships can be helped by these sites but never online ones.
That is still safer than what you might have with real friends. (Not to be taken personally) Your best real friend might be sleeping with your spouse when you are away and conspiring to kill you. It happens every day, but a terrorist cultivating as many youths for their terror campaign is not even a fraction of the murders that take place due to illicit relationships. And, that is only one example.
Your arguments are ridiculous.
1. >> Social networks are just places where the weaklings hide. If a guy cannot get on with others in real life then she rushes to have friends online.
I want to have a friend from a country/region where I have never been to so that I learn a few things about the culture there, the unique things the place has to offer etc., and presuming that local knowledge is what the best you can get, how on earth can I do it unless making online friends? Your argument that socially challenged people who cannot make friends in real life go on to make friends online. I refute that primarily for 2 reasons:
a) It is baseless. I have many friends online on the social networks as I have in my real life. Besides, there is no harm for socially challenged people making online friends.
b) Weaklings are people like you who hide under anonymous names without a real image to display online. In fact, weaklings are wary of making friends or remain in the dark and due to the perennial inferiority complexes they suffer for known/unknown reasons or have something to hide, unbeknownst to whomsoever it may concern.
2. >> In fact you may have a Lashkar militant talking to you as a friend without knowing it... real friendships can be helped by these sites but never online ones.
That is still safer than what you might have with real friends. (Not to be taken personally) Your best real friend might be sleeping with your spouse when you are away and conspiring to kill you. It happens every day, but a terrorist cultivating as many youths for their terror campaign is not even a fraction of the murders that take place due to illicit relationships. And, that is only one example.
Well did i ever say that I am not a weakling. My fear comes from my own experience. ...Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels said as much and would rather be with horses than with humans. So I am in good company here.
I think I am being misunderstood here...it is good to have networks but who guarantees that one does not get to meet pervs online and trust them. There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Like I myself may be a 92 year old male witch out here to hassle folks ;-) or I may be just a chatbot...:-)
I think I am being misunderstood here...it is good to have networks but who guarantees that one does not get to meet pervs online and trust them. There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Like I myself may be a 92 year old male witch out here to hassle folks ;-) or I may be just a chatbot...:-)
@ rhapsodysinger:
>> There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Like I myself may be a 92 year old male witch out here to hassle folks
That’s one of the many charms the Internet and the social networks offer - anonymity and virtual role-play. If I am an old man and desire to act young, what’s the harm in that? As the real life won’t allow that, the Web is the only way out. I would take this as a virtue and not a shortcoming.
One point that might be off topic here, but still relevant. Loneliness is a disease, and when the real society shun you off, only online social networking or virtual socializing makes you feel wanted.
Also, I would rather have a pedophile having cyber sex with a kid playing someone of his/her age than have the pedophile go and get the real thing with real kids. If such pervert frustrations can be released online, then I must say social networks are doing a jolly good job for the society!
I would rather prefer to meet a person with multiple personality dissociation with criminal bent of mind online than in real life for personal safety reasons.
>> There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Like I myself may be a 92 year old male witch out here to hassle folks
That’s one of the many charms the Internet and the social networks offer - anonymity and virtual role-play. If I am an old man and desire to act young, what’s the harm in that? As the real life won’t allow that, the Web is the only way out. I would take this as a virtue and not a shortcoming.
One point that might be off topic here, but still relevant. Loneliness is a disease, and when the real society shun you off, only online social networking or virtual socializing makes you feel wanted.
Also, I would rather have a pedophile having cyber sex with a kid playing someone of his/her age than have the pedophile go and get the real thing with real kids. If such pervert frustrations can be released online, then I must say social networks are doing a jolly good job for the society!
I would rather prefer to meet a person with multiple personality dissociation with criminal bent of mind online than in real life for personal safety reasons.
@ rhapsodysinger
>> Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels said as much and would rather be with horses than with humans
Hey do you know that Sade said that he likes pain, or Shakespeare that what is a man who has no company of friends, or Horase that man is not the perfect creation, or some other great name.
Come on you believe in the saying, keep believing. Why drop names or get authority from it.
Secondly we are not discussing about your being a weakling, but about the use of social networking sites. If you think that you are a weakling and enjoy social networking; debate over. Cause social networking is for people, whether weakling or not-weakling.
>>There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Hey how would you be more troubled if your ’trust’ is broken online, then if it happens offline. Come on, what will happen if you realise that your best offline-90-year friend is a homosexual, who hid about this from world so that they don’t prosecute them. I will suggest you to read Micheal Foucault who has written seminal things on the subject.
Hey we all fell bad whenever our trust is broken, and the notion that one is online to cheat further promotes people who like to mask identities. We may need to develop the social networking sites so that people who may be 90 year old can’t hide such trivial facts.
>> Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels said as much and would rather be with horses than with humans
Hey do you know that Sade said that he likes pain, or Shakespeare that what is a man who has no company of friends, or Horase that man is not the perfect creation, or some other great name.
Come on you believe in the saying, keep believing. Why drop names or get authority from it.
Secondly we are not discussing about your being a weakling, but about the use of social networking sites. If you think that you are a weakling and enjoy social networking; debate over. Cause social networking is for people, whether weakling or not-weakling.
>>There is too much of a gamble with trust online rather than off line.
Hey how would you be more troubled if your ’trust’ is broken online, then if it happens offline. Come on, what will happen if you realise that your best offline-90-year friend is a homosexual, who hid about this from world so that they don’t prosecute them. I will suggest you to read Micheal Foucault who has written seminal things on the subject.
Hey we all fell bad whenever our trust is broken, and the notion that one is online to cheat further promotes people who like to mask identities. We may need to develop the social networking sites so that people who may be 90 year old can’t hide such trivial facts.
With my personal experiences I find, these sites extremely helpful. I have actually found long lost friends and I am sure this will be the case with many. As far as the question of vulnerability and addiction goes, I feel, it is every individual’s prerogative of how they make use of these sites.
No they are not! It is a great place to meet like-minded people, discuss issues, views etc. Anything doone in excess is bad and the same holds true for networking sites. As far as safety goes, one always has to keep in mind basic safety measures...after all don’t we have to do that for everything that we do in life?
@Nmhajan...I agree with you completely
@ arjunm why are we talking of Foucault who here? i thought that is for somewhere else...
;-)
The very fact that you are writing with an established alphabet , is the greatest name dropping ever...we can never not name-drop in anything that we do...
Oh Jonty why do you get so hyper?
The fever, the frenzy and the fret...
Incidentally am reading a book called All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy, just wanted to tell you all here, it’s fantastic...the guy’s underrated...
Did I netowrk here or am seeking friends?
@ arjunm why are we talking of Foucault who here? i thought that is for somewhere else...
;-)
The very fact that you are writing with an established alphabet , is the greatest name dropping ever...we can never not name-drop in anything that we do...
Oh Jonty why do you get so hyper?
The fever, the frenzy and the fret...
Incidentally am reading a book called All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy, just wanted to tell you all here, it’s fantastic...the guy’s underrated...
Did I netowrk here or am seeking friends?
@jonty...what u say is fine but the problem is that real pedophiles might be hunting on the net to gain the trust of real kids and then meet them in person...then what...freedom is good no doubt but who will protect the kids?
Kids are surfing the net unsupervised...that is my problem with these sites...I have no answer how to protect children from the net...apart from our back and forth talk here I ask you and arjunm to seriously think how we can protect kids.
I know a group of kids in kerala who have been destroyed by the net...they surfed daily and they got invovled with a pedo racket. The Carmelite Fathers there have rescued them and they are being reintegrated into mainstream society...what for us is a privilege, for many it is a trap...
Kids are surfing the net unsupervised...that is my problem with these sites...I have no answer how to protect children from the net...apart from our back and forth talk here I ask you and arjunm to seriously think how we can protect kids.
I know a group of kids in kerala who have been destroyed by the net...they surfed daily and they got invovled with a pedo racket. The Carmelite Fathers there have rescued them and they are being reintegrated into mainstream society...what for us is a privilege, for many it is a trap...
@ rhapsodysinger
It took more than 24 hours and around 1½ dozen comments to make you understand the fact, but I’m glad you ultimately realized what you were missing! Anyway, nice to meet you.
It took more than 24 hours and around 1½ dozen comments to make you understand the fact, but I’m glad you ultimately realized what you were missing! Anyway, nice to meet you.
@ rhapsodysinger:
If you are a professional rhapsody singer wannabe, where would you go when you don’t have any real platform to showcase your talent or any buyers for your broken voice?
MySpace of course!
Which brings to my point! :-)
If you are a professional rhapsody singer wannabe, where would you go when you don’t have any real platform to showcase your talent or any buyers for your broken voice?
MySpace of course!
Which brings to my point! :-)
@rhapsodysinger
>>I ask you and arjunm to seriously think how we can protect kids.
Hey I really can’t understand you man, either you’re some real great genius or just windbag. You give really out of context examples and when asked to clarify them start talking some other things.
Your point that kids of kerela had some bad experience, but tell me have their been no pedophiles before internet came? If there were how they used to get their victims? I really don’t have answer how to ’really’ protect those kids which are victims even outside internet, if you can help the world in this regard it will be real big contribution.
>>we can never not name-drop in anything that we do...
Thank God you didn’t cite something for this. I am really obliged. If possible become a bit more open about your ideas. Now you want to talk in regards to Linguistics then Sassure told us century ago that our words exist because of interconnection, and the meaning won’t get killed if we start using different words for the same thing, just there would be problem in communicating the point across the table. But interconnection or naming of words is not what we understand from name-dropping.
>>just wanted to tell you all here, it’s fantastic...the guy’s underrated...
Did I netowrk here or am seeking friends?
You just made a fool of yourself or told us what you perceive from social networking sites. I hope none other participant in this debate see social-networking sites in this way.
>>I ask you and arjunm to seriously think how we can protect kids.
Hey I really can’t understand you man, either you’re some real great genius or just windbag. You give really out of context examples and when asked to clarify them start talking some other things.
Your point that kids of kerela had some bad experience, but tell me have their been no pedophiles before internet came? If there were how they used to get their victims? I really don’t have answer how to ’really’ protect those kids which are victims even outside internet, if you can help the world in this regard it will be real big contribution.
>>we can never not name-drop in anything that we do...
Thank God you didn’t cite something for this. I am really obliged. If possible become a bit more open about your ideas. Now you want to talk in regards to Linguistics then Sassure told us century ago that our words exist because of interconnection, and the meaning won’t get killed if we start using different words for the same thing, just there would be problem in communicating the point across the table. But interconnection or naming of words is not what we understand from name-dropping.
>>just wanted to tell you all here, it’s fantastic...the guy’s underrated...
Did I netowrk here or am seeking friends?
You just made a fool of yourself or told us what you perceive from social networking sites. I hope none other participant in this debate see social-networking sites in this way.
Here is a suggestion for all the people on the other side. It is clear that you all look only at the positive results or effects of anything. But you should realize that ”Positive attitude” or ”Positive thinking” and ”Being Careful” are completely different. People, kindly start being careful atleast from now and guide many others also to be careful and show them right path. More comments on this side would definitely indicate that world has realised the importance of time and started taking care of themselves and are doing something meaningful and worthful. Sharing views, discussing thoughts and etc can’t we do it with our known friends, colleagues and family members?
Warm Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Warm Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
This might sound a bit philosophical but I strongly feel that it is pointless to focus the debate of good/bad and useful/useless on the product, because it depends on the person using it.
I will stick to an example already quoted above- television. One could probably list a variety of detrimental effects to your eyes, backbone, time, energy, metabolism from getting addicted to it yet hardly does a debate ever come up asking “Should television be banned?”.For, it has become a part of the family and everyone from your grandmother to the toddler watch it. Then, why all this hype and hoopla around social networking sites? Probably because it has recently come to the limelight. Another reason could be the fact that it is mainly a part of the youth segment of the society.
The topper of my class has connected to a lot of resourceful people interested in the same field and is doing great. My own friend has no better job than inviting anyone who resembles an average looking person of the fairer sex to be a friend and flirt his head off. So, what can we say? Hence, There is nothing wrong with these sites.
I will stick to an example already quoted above- television. One could probably list a variety of detrimental effects to your eyes, backbone, time, energy, metabolism from getting addicted to it yet hardly does a debate ever come up asking “Should television be banned?”.For, it has become a part of the family and everyone from your grandmother to the toddler watch it. Then, why all this hype and hoopla around social networking sites? Probably because it has recently come to the limelight. Another reason could be the fact that it is mainly a part of the youth segment of the society.
The topper of my class has connected to a lot of resourceful people interested in the same field and is doing great. My own friend has no better job than inviting anyone who resembles an average looking person of the fairer sex to be a friend and flirt his head off. So, what can we say? Hence, There is nothing wrong with these sites.
On a more personal note, I would just like to add something. Connecting to old pals and maintaining contact with them has become plausible no doubt, thanks to these sites. Yet, the kind of relationships maintained by these means seems to be very shallow. We have all become closer yet, more distant from each other. The old bonds forged through letters and telephone have become a thing of the past. Words seem easier to exchange yet lack the strengh to convey how much you care. I do not know if many feel it but I would prefer bonding through other means with people who matter.
@ Ramyatadikonda:
Hi, first of all, it seems you dont pay attention to other people’s comments n keep forcing your thoughts. Just take a look at the very first comment of this debate, made by me. It clearly indicates about your so called concern of ’being careful’.
And it shows clearly that you infact like these social networking sites, thats why you are advocating the idea of ’being careful’. That means you are comfortable with my thoughts..
Why don’t you listen to your inner self n come n join us on ’this side of the debate’?
Hi, first of all, it seems you dont pay attention to other people’s comments n keep forcing your thoughts. Just take a look at the very first comment of this debate, made by me. It clearly indicates about your so called concern of ’being careful’.
And it shows clearly that you infact like these social networking sites, thats why you are advocating the idea of ’being careful’. That means you are comfortable with my thoughts..
Why don’t you listen to your inner self n come n join us on ’this side of the debate’?
@aneezshaikh
Oh do u think so? But let me tell you that I read the comments and pay attention to each and every line and more importantly i give preference to what the debate is on, what should be our approach and stuff.
If you had given proper attention to what my first comment was then you would not have written all this. Never mind, i will repeat again, i said that instead falling in risk and wasting time with these sites and chatting with unknown people it’s better to chat with your friends and family members. Please read my earlier comment once again.
For instance: If anyone sleeps with all their windows and doors open in the nights, this very positive thinking attitude, can get them some fresh and cool air but what about the danger, they will be zero by the time they wake up, they won’t even have their computer to write a comment at this view point.
Now is it clear what we all are trying to explain? Don’t keep your doors and windows open meaning don’t go near danger, instead do something good, share views, improve knowledge with your people. And your assumption is completely wrong that i enjoy surfing these kind of sites. Frankly speaking I hate all such things. Instead I teach math online, I write blogs and if get time I chat with my old friends, mail my parents, family members and share my thoughts and views with wonderful colleagues like you!Take care.
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Oh do u think so? But let me tell you that I read the comments and pay attention to each and every line and more importantly i give preference to what the debate is on, what should be our approach and stuff.
If you had given proper attention to what my first comment was then you would not have written all this. Never mind, i will repeat again, i said that instead falling in risk and wasting time with these sites and chatting with unknown people it’s better to chat with your friends and family members. Please read my earlier comment once again.
For instance: If anyone sleeps with all their windows and doors open in the nights, this very positive thinking attitude, can get them some fresh and cool air but what about the danger, they will be zero by the time they wake up, they won’t even have their computer to write a comment at this view point.
Now is it clear what we all are trying to explain? Don’t keep your doors and windows open meaning don’t go near danger, instead do something good, share views, improve knowledge with your people. And your assumption is completely wrong that i enjoy surfing these kind of sites. Frankly speaking I hate all such things. Instead I teach math online, I write blogs and if get time I chat with my old friends, mail my parents, family members and share my thoughts and views with wonderful colleagues like you!Take care.
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Windbag is more like it ;-)
Hahahahaha...though genius flatters the ego...
Hahahahaha...though genius flatters the ego...
Now for a change I am amazed by you arjunM.
Diverting totally, I meant language is the great referential.
The other thing I may clearly state is that I have been online only for the last three or so months and am enjoying this blogging and online debate-business.
Pedophilia was there earlier but the net can be wrongly utilized to form pediphilic rings and trap kids. Again that is not the fault of the net but people who use it.
By the way I havesigned up at Facebook, MySpace etc. after these debates here.
And for citation , what about Walter Ong?
Diverting totally, I meant language is the great referential.
The other thing I may clearly state is that I have been online only for the last three or so months and am enjoying this blogging and online debate-business.
Pedophilia was there earlier but the net can be wrongly utilized to form pediphilic rings and trap kids. Again that is not the fault of the net but people who use it.
By the way I havesigned up at Facebook, MySpace etc. after these debates here.
And for citation , what about Walter Ong?
@ Ramyatadikonda:
First of all, if you get the meaning of my phrase ’TREAD THE ROADS CAUTIOUSLY.’, you will know it does not proposes sleeping with your doors open.
And secondly, the debate here is going on about the social networking sites being useful or useless. So instead of pressing your point of KEEPING THE DOORS CLOSED, try to nullify our belief in the usefulness of these sites, as we have successfully done with your negative reactions.
And lastly, with respect to your ideology of ’ KEEPING THE DOORS CLOSED’, tell me, are you comfortable writing as a freelancer for a community which i’m sure is not known to you in any other way but ’through the net’? And if your answer is ’yes’, than I’m sorry to say that youe are cotradicting your own ideas.
Its better to do a reality check!
First of all, if you get the meaning of my phrase ’TREAD THE ROADS CAUTIOUSLY.’, you will know it does not proposes sleeping with your doors open.
And secondly, the debate here is going on about the social networking sites being useful or useless. So instead of pressing your point of KEEPING THE DOORS CLOSED, try to nullify our belief in the usefulness of these sites, as we have successfully done with your negative reactions.
And lastly, with respect to your ideology of ’ KEEPING THE DOORS CLOSED’, tell me, are you comfortable writing as a freelancer for a community which i’m sure is not known to you in any other way but ’through the net’? And if your answer is ’yes’, than I’m sorry to say that youe are cotradicting your own ideas.
Its better to do a reality check!
@aneezshaikh
Hello, I clearly understand the meaning of the phrases or words others write, if I don’t understand I take help of dictionary and try to understand things and then take a step to write here, as this is a place where most of our colleagues and friends land when they get time. I think being an electronics and Communications engineering graduate, I understand what you and others write and also have knowledge to speak on what is right and wrong.
And coming to doors open and closed, it’s just an example, you are taking it as the main point but still you are not understanding why i wrote that. Some of them mentioned as ”Is TV an idiot box?” does it mean diverting topic. It’s just an example. I think you should try to concentrate on what i am trying to say instead of stressing on the examples I use. I surely wrote on the usgae of social network sites.
I mean to say, we should use online resources, which are helpful for us. But not waste time doing all this crap. Why can’t you suggest the youth to do some useful things for their future. Think how many yongsters get effected after reading all this. You are showing that chatting with strangers and wasting time is good. Kindly look into that first. Suggest others to send their resumes or search for jobs, suggest them to write blogs, suggest them to make a bright future, but you are asking them to go in a wrong way completely.
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Hello, I clearly understand the meaning of the phrases or words others write, if I don’t understand I take help of dictionary and try to understand things and then take a step to write here, as this is a place where most of our colleagues and friends land when they get time. I think being an electronics and Communications engineering graduate, I understand what you and others write and also have knowledge to speak on what is right and wrong.
And coming to doors open and closed, it’s just an example, you are taking it as the main point but still you are not understanding why i wrote that. Some of them mentioned as ”Is TV an idiot box?” does it mean diverting topic. It’s just an example. I think you should try to concentrate on what i am trying to say instead of stressing on the examples I use. I surely wrote on the usgae of social network sites.
I mean to say, we should use online resources, which are helpful for us. But not waste time doing all this crap. Why can’t you suggest the youth to do some useful things for their future. Think how many yongsters get effected after reading all this. You are showing that chatting with strangers and wasting time is good. Kindly look into that first. Suggest others to send their resumes or search for jobs, suggest them to write blogs, suggest them to make a bright future, but you are asking them to go in a wrong way completely.
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
@ rhapsodysinger
You must grow!
See, when you take a decision you should stick to it. Within 24 hours you changed your mind, in this small debate, then how will you lead your life, when you have to stick to things which are impossible. You can even go to your elders and ask whether this is right or not. Sticking to your decisions inturn means that you beleive in yourself. Have a great day!
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
You must grow!
See, when you take a decision you should stick to it. Within 24 hours you changed your mind, in this small debate, then how will you lead your life, when you have to stick to things which are impossible. You can even go to your elders and ask whether this is right or not. Sticking to your decisions inturn means that you beleive in yourself. Have a great day!
Thanks and Regards,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
@Ramyatadikonda
I don’t have any right to comment on which you said for rhapodysinger, but still I would like you to grow up.
I really can’t understand that why you think that one should not change his/her viewpoint, and should go on debating or defending just for the sake of defending. If s/he feels like rectifying after hearing both the sides then let the person do so. I think we participate in this debate so that we can grow on other’s suggestion or check our understanding of the subject. We don’t participate to prove how intelligent we are or how stubborn. Please stop preaching that one can only succeed in the world if he is adamant about his thoughts, the only person I know who are adamant are fanatics or suicide-terrorists.
That is the whole point of Web 2.0. It is not one way thing, or just a monologue, but a place where people can express themselves and their opinions over different issues and benefit from others. That is how we wish to grow and should. The kind of problems we are facing today in the geo-political world is only because of lack of communication.
It is really an act of valor of rahpodysinger which deserves appreciation, that he admitted that he has ’converted’, not criticism. I would love to get ’converted’, it proves to me that I am human.
To err is human, to admit that is superhuman
-G.B.Shaw
I don’t have any right to comment on which you said for rhapodysinger, but still I would like you to grow up.
I really can’t understand that why you think that one should not change his/her viewpoint, and should go on debating or defending just for the sake of defending. If s/he feels like rectifying after hearing both the sides then let the person do so. I think we participate in this debate so that we can grow on other’s suggestion or check our understanding of the subject. We don’t participate to prove how intelligent we are or how stubborn. Please stop preaching that one can only succeed in the world if he is adamant about his thoughts, the only person I know who are adamant are fanatics or suicide-terrorists.
That is the whole point of Web 2.0. It is not one way thing, or just a monologue, but a place where people can express themselves and their opinions over different issues and benefit from others. That is how we wish to grow and should. The kind of problems we are facing today in the geo-political world is only because of lack of communication.
It is really an act of valor of rahpodysinger which deserves appreciation, that he admitted that he has ’converted’, not criticism. I would love to get ’converted’, it proves to me that I am human.
To err is human, to admit that is superhuman
-G.B.Shaw
@arjunm
Even i know, that we are here just to express our views.
And i too agree that we can develop ourselves by sharing our thoughts and ideas. But don’t you think, Rhapsodysinger may from now atleast start beleiving in himself, is he learns how to make decisions and stick to them. Actually if you take today’s debate or anyday’s debate topic, i write in such a way that the generation coming back of us should follow correct way, some out of my experiences and some by the preaches from my elders or senior colleagues or friends. And i am 100% sure that Rhapsodysinger will definitely come back to us after few days or few months or few years and tell us that i am right in asking him to stick to his opinions.
See, you said it’s nothing wrong changing the decisions after reading other comments or seeing the problem from other’s point of view, but did you think atleast once that we should teach him that he should atleast think twice or thrice before he writes on the next debate or not only this debate any other decision he should take after thinking well.
Arjun, as i said earlier people not sticking to their decisions is kind of not believing themselves.
Before i write a comment i think many times, i read what i wrote atleast for 2-3 times and then save it. So, teach him that atleast from now decision-making will help him. Decision-making is a must in one’s life.
Coming back to the debate i still feel that people should use their time in better way to grow instead of wasting time on these social-networking sites.
Have a nice time!
Thanks and Regrds,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Even i know, that we are here just to express our views.
And i too agree that we can develop ourselves by sharing our thoughts and ideas. But don’t you think, Rhapsodysinger may from now atleast start beleiving in himself, is he learns how to make decisions and stick to them. Actually if you take today’s debate or anyday’s debate topic, i write in such a way that the generation coming back of us should follow correct way, some out of my experiences and some by the preaches from my elders or senior colleagues or friends. And i am 100% sure that Rhapsodysinger will definitely come back to us after few days or few months or few years and tell us that i am right in asking him to stick to his opinions.
See, you said it’s nothing wrong changing the decisions after reading other comments or seeing the problem from other’s point of view, but did you think atleast once that we should teach him that he should atleast think twice or thrice before he writes on the next debate or not only this debate any other decision he should take after thinking well.
Arjun, as i said earlier people not sticking to their decisions is kind of not believing themselves.
Before i write a comment i think many times, i read what i wrote atleast for 2-3 times and then save it. So, teach him that atleast from now decision-making will help him. Decision-making is a must in one’s life.
Coming back to the debate i still feel that people should use their time in better way to grow instead of wasting time on these social-networking sites.
Have a nice time!
Thanks and Regrds,
Ramya Tadikonda,
Freelancer,
Instablogs.
Quote by Ramyatadikonda
@arjunm Even i know, that we are here just to express our views. And i too agree that we can..., Ramya you are right about decision making, but I beg to differ from your view point that what we do here is more of deciding which side we will be supporting. For me we put our views out about the topic, and see how others think about the same topic. I visit instablogs.com daily but many times I don’t even write a word on the ongoing debate as I have no views about that and I even don’t wish to have. I request you to think it more as a discussion, cause if we start seeing it as some life changing decision we may never be able to give our opinions or views. And about your point that people may learn the correct way from our discussion is really not possible. The beauty of the world in which we live is about the differences, I may be an atheist, my room partner a staunch hindu-believer, my best friend a muslim, we all discuss many times about religion and always everybody goes back without converting anybody. But still we enjoy each others company! And of course I agree with you that we should think twice before putting our fingers on keyboard, but please don’t burden anybody with so much responsibility that he can’t take the discussion as discussion and gain nothing out of it, excepting just becoming famous as devil’s advocate or stubborn-foolish-not-worth-talking. I still think had Hitler accepted that he has taken wrong decision by invading Russia so early then world would have been a different place. Maybe far worse or far good. Coming back to the debate i still feel that social-networking sites are of great utility if you use them judiciously. Have a nice time!
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The belief that these sites waste countless productive hours of users is a brainchild of a group of socially-insecure people who are married to their job and have no fun left in them. THERE IS NO COMPULSION OF ANY SORT TO JOIN THESE SITES, and hence a user’s membership justifies his motive, which is the soul purpose of these sites.
Moreover, the terms ’cyber bullying’ & ’cyber terrorism’ owe their origin to the real world, and hence it is foolish & useless to leave the fact and chase the shadow.
As far as the question of Insecurity or Identity theft is concerned, it happens only if a particular member is careless on his/her part. It is a member-specific problem and not a site-specific one.
And lastly, ’interoperability’ has never been an issue with any social activity. So, it does not harm these sites in any way.
To sum it up, these social networking sites offer a good platform for people to express themselves and engage in activities with like-minded individuals. Just one thing is to be kept in mind - TREAD THE ROADS CAUTIOUSLY.