foro 3: Be as social like in a social network!! Kathy Hernández – English III- January 2011

Social network is a way to join lonely people. In know that is a polemics topic but maybe I´m the last person who do not join every second to interact in any social network. I have a page in Facebook and LindedIn as everybody but checked it upon of time, maybe ones in a month. I affirm that is for lonely people because as a psychology, I open the facebook page to observe the behaviors of people subscribed on it: for example
a) The people develop an urgent needs to be accepted by others, they are desperate to increase the numbers of friend, everybody invite you to join to their pages, and you quickly feels the contagious to accept another people, people who knows and another who do not knows but the goal is to have more than 100 friends per day or per week. That behavior let me thing that new people missed the skill or the art to make friends, when you have to present and talk with people, today just push the “enter” and you have a new friend. ¿have you?
b) There are persons who expend several time, alone in front of his computer, maybe in their rooms, maybe in a desk lately at night in a lonely office, maybe in a library that close late or in a caffe internet interacting with “their friends” in facebook or in a chat, they can not observe that around them, there are not anybody. They are alone…, they close the computer and what?, they walk alone to their house, a place where they, maybe felt more alone… I guest that people do not have family to speak about the day, in the past everybody join to dinner and speak, they are a tradition that we miss nowadays.
c) Finally, some of that people join in a games, in order to share with their new friend and spend all day accepting and giving presents, cards, poems, songs, etc. that maybe in the real live, they can not image to send or to share.

Be as social like in a social network!!

For that reasons and many others that I can observe in facebook is that I affirm that social network, instead of to meet people, it is provoking a lonely society without values and without real friendship. I believe that when I find a friend, I find a treasure but I have to see and hold the friendship.