We see teens spending hours on social networking sites. Updating each and every single happening is in the trend. Nobody cares if you are eating or sleeping. That is what everybody does. They waste their valuable time in front of the computer screens. These virtual devils have invaded their minds and nothing else matters to them. You don’t remember your friend’s birthday. Facebook is always there to remind you. People prefer talking to their friends online. Real contact is almost lost.
For those of you who think they cannot live without facebook, here are the 5 benefits:
- You can be more productive: There is almost a 100 percent guarantee that your happiness lies outside a social media site as claimed by various psychologists. There is suddenly a lot of time on your hands now. The time you devoted to Facebook can be utilized to study, read books or maybe brush up your existing skills. You start paying attention to your physical environment and human nature. Once your mind is off Facebook, you start observing the world.
- Going out and spending time with your friends is possible: There is a thing about Facebook friends, they are not real! You meet new people over facebook so they are just your acquaintances, not actual friends. Most of them do not actually care. You don’t connect to them for any other reason but Facebook! Once your account gets deactivated, you are no longer in contact with ‘those’ friends. Also, there are various other ways to stay in touch with your old- friends, text or a phone call. Meeting and spending time with your friends will actually give you more happiness than talking to them online.
- To live in the present: You can enjoy and pay more attention to what is going on if you are not tensed about the next update or a nice caption of the picture you are going to upload. Also, you regain your privacy as you are not in a frenzy to upload each and every picture that you click. Once uploaded, you are worried that your post got few ‘likes’ or ‘comments’. You stop worrying about the other people’s digitally curated lives. Believe it or not, but Facebook causes certain emotions like anger, jealousy, fear and dissatisfaction.
- Nobody is reading your blog post: People have a lot more things to do than read your blogs and updates. Posting a blog will only increase the net traffic as it would start a chain of chain of ‘comments’, ‘likes’ and ‘shares’. So you will have to go through all of that and reply to each and every single person. Also, any post is exposed to your immediate network of family and friends.
- You are not getting exploited: Facebook exploits our social interactions. The games, apps, and the pages that we ‘like’ are a means for the promoters to earn money. Facebook has also been used for surveys and getting to know the latest trends. Unknowingly, we are giving out information about ourselves and all the people related to us.