Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace allow you to find and
connect with just about anyone, from a coworker in a neighboring cube to
the girl who played Emily in your high school production of "Our Town"
thirty years ago. Browsing these sites can make you feel connected to a
larger community, but such easy, casual connection in an electronic
environment can also have its downside.
A False Sense of Connection
According to Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media
sites can make it make it more difficult for us to distinguish between
the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the
numerous casual relationships formed through social media. By focusing
so much of our time and psychic energy on these less meaningful
relationships, our most important connections, he fears, will weaken.
Cyber-bullying
The immediacy provided by social media is available to predators
as well as friends. Kids especially are vulnerable to the practice of
cyber-bullying in which the perpetrators, anonymously or even posing as
people their victims trust, terrorize individuals in front of their
peers. The devastation of these online attacks can leave deep mental
scars. In several well-publicized cases, victims have even been driven
to suicide. The anonymity afforded online can bring out dark impulses
that might otherwise be suppressed. Cyber-bullying has spread widely
among youth, with 42% reporting that they have been victims, according
to a 2010 CBS News report.
Decreased Productivity
While many businesses use social networking sites to find and
communicate with clients, the sites can also prove a great distraction
to employees who may show more interest in what their friends are
posting than in their work tasks. Wired.com posted two studies which
demonstrated damage to productivity caused by social networking: Nucleus
Research reported that Facebook shaves 1.5% off office productivity
while Morse claimed that British companies lost 2.2 billion a year to
the social phenomenon. New technology products have become available
that allow social networks to be blocked, but their effectiveness
remains spotty.
Privacy
Social networking sites encourage people to be more public about
their personal lives. Because intimate details of our lives can be
posted so easily, users are prone to bypass the filters they might
normally employ when talking about their private lives. What's more,
the things they post remain available indefinitely. While at one moment
a photo of friends doing shots at a party may seem harmless, the image
may appear less attractive in the context of an employer doing a
background check. While most sites allow their users to control who sees
the things they've posted, such limitations are often forgotten, can be
difficult to control or don't work as well as advertised.
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