Social networking in today era has became in one of the most accurate ways of communication for corporate people, small business and anyone. There's a lot benefits from social networking such as communications and marketing for your personal business. All bug business have their own pages in almost every social media because they know is the best way to do marketing and to get noticed for they target people. As almost everything, blogs, social media, social networking have positive things and a dark, negative side when people don't know who to use it appropriate.
The dark side have social networking as it was mentioned before is the over use of this. People tend to spend a lot of time in the internet just scrolling down and wasting time in the feed section of any social media. In "Facebook Exodus" by Virginia Efferman this testimony is mentioned "I primarily left Facebook because I was wasting so much time on it,” my friend Caroline Harting told me by e-mail. “I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies because I rarely directly contacted them.” Instead, she felt as if she stalked them, spending hours a day looking at their pages without actually saying hello." This a clear example of how Facebook or any social media may become in an excessive waste of time specially when people don't even use it as it supposed to be for communication and networking either for business or personal things. Another big aspect of this dark side in social networking is that people tend to lose their interpersonal communication skills because today kids grow with an whole entire online communication where they don't really need to see or call their friends to start a talking such way that people is communication more and more through text than with a personal interactions clearly affecting people communication skills one example of this is reflected in "Antisocial Networking" by Hillary Stout "The question on researchers’ minds is whether all that texting, instant messaging and online social networking allows children to become more connected and supportive of their friends — or whether the quality of their interactions is being diminished without the intimacy and emotional give and take of regular, extended face-to-face time" this shows how people are worry about how all this texting and online communication would affect the face to face time when these kids in today era are required to interact with people through talking to texting.
All the things have a possible dark side it all depend how you use them, specially the networking and social media world. It could become in a waste of time and a waste of interpersonal skills that are required for your personal grow. Social networking is an excellent tool but need to be used appropriate and not in excessive
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