As of the current moment, we are all connected. Our pinky fingers has an invisible line leading to different people. In other words, we signed up in one social network and all of the sudden we are associated with every single people in the world. It’s crazy how can one website do that. The keyword is social network. Admit it, you are part of one.

These social networks has this power to take up most of our time. We are supposed to be working or studying and they are right there beside us. Tugging on our shirts and nagging, “hey, open me”. Even though we often tell ourselves, “yeah, for just a minute”, that doesn’t seem to work most of the time. Without even you knowing it, you’ve spent an hour in these social networks, looking at people’s picture, seeing how they are doing, knowing where they are and who they are with. Social networks grabs you in the arm and introduces you to a new friend which shares the same thing you like. And you just made a cyber friend.

(Source: http://edubuzz.org/plhsbbcschoolreport/2013/03/20/social-networking/)

This new cyber friend of yours will introduce you to a bunch of other people which also likes the same thing you like and then you are in one group. To some people, friends is the reason why they often go online. To chat with this friends and to be updated to certain things. And the chatting and updating will go on for hours and hours and then you look at your window and you can see the sun rising. It’s morning and you didn’t get a single work done.

On the other hand, social network is not only about taking up your time. As said, it is connecting people. And before you knew it, you are connected to your long lost twin sister. That’s a good thing isn’t it? It can also keep you updated to things you don’t know about like school or work-related subjects. Also, chat boxes are available for instant communication. These social networks can connect you to your classmate back when you are in kindergarten and maybe even to your future husband or wife.

On how you use these social networks is all up to you. Other people used these social networks to get acquainted to other people, others used it for business and others are just downright cruel and mean and used this for bullying which we all hope would not happened. A pat in the back for the makers of these social networks. They surely did a good job.

Jessica Frost