DISCLAIMER: The following post is filled with irony. After all, it is hard to discuss social networking sites with the masses.
Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, you name it ... have all had huge effects on our social lives whether we realize it or not.
When you have a 10 page paper due in two days, what do you do? Write your paper of course?! Pssht of course not. You spend the night planning your wedding on pinterest.
When a friend makes you angry, you confront them in person and discuss things. Yeah right. You post an obvious status about it hoping they won't notice.
When your boyfriend takes 5 minutes to text you back, you wait 10 minutes to send him a reply. Yeah, that'll show him.
When you go to the bathroom, you tweet about it. Hashtag, get a life.
We have become so consumed with social networking and the devices that come it. Now I am not totally bashing facebook and twitter. They are some of the greatest developments of our generation. We can stay in touch with distant friends and family members and meet new people. The opportunities are endless. When these tools are abused however, they serve as a hinderance to the human race.
Relationships have ended because one person isn't willing to make it "facebook official." Now please tell me. Who in the world told you that you had to get Mark Zuckerberg's approval to date someone? Hours and hours are spent inside, in front of a MacBook screen, scrolling through picture after picture of people we hardly know.
I say all this out of experience because I have definitely been a victim of social networking abuse. But I really don't think it would kill us to still utilize some of our God given social skills, and step away from the computer and iPhone. I promise they won't disappear. Instead of leaving snide, indirect txt cmnts tht look lyk thiz, take the time and actually address the person. I guarantee that you both will benefit from it. So will your grammar.
