The development of technology, particularly in the areas of transportation and communication, create social networks or social websites, which is connecting intermediately between a person with another person for a particular purpose. Social websites can connect the individual with other individuals throughout the world. Today, a huge number of social websites existed to be the mediator throughout the world. Among the most popular websites, especially for adults and students are Facebook, Twitter, Friendster and MySpace. These social websites allow peoples communicate quickly and also save a lot of time.
Conan Milner wrote an article ‘Social networking can increase feelings of isolation’ in the Epoch Times mentioned that the study conducted by MTV's 24-hour college network, The Jed Foundation, and The Associated Press examine that mental health of college students and their relationship with technology is importance in students' lives. It is increasing the feeling of isolation among students. They are willing to spend hours in front of the computer surfing the social web applications which is available in the Internet. With this, they will be less mixed directly with the public because they spend a lot of time alone in front of computer. To me, students who are using this social site facility are usually for the purpose of sharing information and knowledge with colleagues. For them, this the only way they can communicate with friends about a problem quickly. Besides sharing information, the main reason is simply for social leisure. In addition, some of them doing business and create campaigns through social websites like Facebook and Twitter. They are also browsing and playing interesting games at the leisure times. It shows that students are willing to navigate the Internet applications 24 hours and choose not to sleep early at night. This means that they use their free time with useless activities.
Some of the students who visit social website are aimed to find contacts. This is the easiest way for them to choose who they like based on the profile and displayed images. The relationship will become more serious if they can stay in touch every time. But there was undeniably successful in finding the suitable if their meet a mate through the social networks and build a happy family.Social web site like this actually can provide many benefits to all users, especially the youth and student groups should be used with appropriately. However, such facilities sometimes are used to threat someone or wrongdoing through the Internet. In fact, we can conclude here that these social networks have advantages and disadvantages; it is beneficial to those who use it wisely, instead inviting a problem for those who abuse it.
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