A study on the influence of social networking in India showed that about 68.5 per cent of India's web population accessed social networking sites in February last year , visiting sites on an average of 13 times. An average user spent about 2 hours 10 minutes on various sites. One side it is appreciable that people are more enthusiastic to share what is in their mind and to keep their relationships alive through various sites. Through the social websites lot many have got back old friends and lost relatives. Thanks to the masters who innovated the idea of online platform to care and share.
At the same time one can’t just simply avoid the harms of these sites. For example whether it is a professional or fun type or socializing network, one would share all the personal data on the sites and then from the very next day itself one can see unwanted mails pouring into their inbox as it is very easy to take the email ids from social websites.
The problem would not stop here, from the social networks one can find friends’ friends. And then someone can send emails or photo or links which would be sending by indirect friends. Tagging and commenting on face book is a good example. When one gets the notification that his/her friend is tagged on someone’s photo or wall, they would get tempted to know the context. Then it might take one to some other site and it may ask to login to some other applications which is similar to that of the particular social network home page. And even if one won’t login also, mails from the site would find a place in ones inbox.
Another trouble of social networking is making friends unwantedly. The main victims of the issue are teenagers, the more excited group who generally won’t follow the proverb “look before you leap”. They simply keep on adding all the strangers into their friends list as they interested with number of friends in the list than whether they know the particular person or not which end up in some or other problems for them. Most of them keep their photos and contact details in “Public” which are really risky.
Moreover psychologists have found out that these kids may find the real world boring as in the virtual world things happen much faster, with a click of the mouse and so they will look to more extreme types of behavior to get a kick out of life. At the same time making new friends with strangers may develop their quality of social interaction and communication skills which would result both in negative and positive ways on them.
