One of the leading dailies today carried an article on the hoopla circling the social networking websites and how they have become a sort of addiction. The article revealed startling figures emphasizing the madness of users to the most popular site FACEBOOK (the only place where it is sane to talk to a wall :P). There are approx 400 million users of facebook and approx 200 million login every day. Altogether, 6 billion minutes are spent on FB every day (OMG!!!) and an average user spends 55 minutes daily on this site.
The article also emphasized on the mental clutter that is caused by these sites, which I think is true to some extent. Imagine from a list of 100 friends, 25 posting status updates frequently. How much can a person remember, yeah she is getting herself blue hair and yeah she has done a tattoo and oh she is a bit unwell rite now and wow she is getting married. Too much to digest for a day!!! But then it helps in a way to be in contact with friends and I must say that I met my school friends after a period of almost seven years thanks to one of these social networking sites. So no, I am not complaining anything, neither I am averse to these sites. Only thing that is a bit disturbing is ADDICTION to these websites.
To think from the addiction point of view, yes these sites act as some kind of drugs and we do get hooked in the web. It becomes an addiction to constantly post status updates to be in the limelight. If some day, there is no access to net, no problem facebook mobile feature fulfills the urge (sounds like a drug addict is going wild for his dose). Not emphasizing further, a person addicted to drugs has to undergo through a rehab center. Do we see a Facebook rehab center looming???????????????
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