WE NEED SOCIAL SITES...

Contradictory to the intuitive notion of the elderly that any new craze for fashion or technology of the upcoming generations is definitely useless as they were able to do without it and harmful as it kills time, I would like to argue that they are not. Our elderly generation had loads of relatives inside the home and outside to while away their time in gossip, though more painful gossip about others and we, in today’s nuclear family and live-in-own-house-without-knowing-neighbours scenario, are definitely not to be rated wrong in trying to connect with people, through FaceBook and Orkut. Apart from the fact that in the absence of an Anti-Glare in front of your screen, it ruins your eyes and the radiations affect you detrimentally, Social NetWorking Sites are obviously doing the noble job of catering to the sub-conscious human need of searching people to feel the security of being within a society and finding themselves with relief among so many of their same sapiens species.

Now that mental loneliness and inability to share your finer feelings haunts everyone in this Era of Individualism, finding people, who can atleast partially or for a limited time keep your disguised emptiness away, indeed helps. Unlike the village days, when people used to call to people passing by and chit-chat and know the relatives of relatives of relatives, our hectic schedule and tendency to be formal with guests and sometimes, even with friends do live a vacuum, which can be easily filled up by plugging to Twitter and searching videos and pictures of some dear friends and bygone days of togetherness or by dropping a casual and caring “Hi, Wassup???” even to some not-so-known friend.

Man is a Social Animal and his genetic make-up would forever forbid him to be anything other than that. If we get irritated by teenagers and College guys going online every time they get a chance to, may be we need to pause a bit and owe this to the fact that they inherently need to get or atleast feel, socially active and involved. Unless we are ensured an open society with familiar neighbours, an whose homes we are not entitled just to enjoy coffee in the luxury of their drawing room sofas; relatives who are as close as our own families; friends with whom we can mingle without caring about what they may feel and many others who can make our life lively and enjoyable, we will probably continue to depend upon Social Sites for an instant emotional rescue.

Before the situation dawns that every person is looked down upon as an addict of one or the other Site, living in a virtual world surrounded by unknown and known friends to forget the true one which may or may not value and value to him, it is high time we need to decide upon two options. Either we build up a social society or we earn more acceptances to Networking Sites by Institutions and elders for they are definitely going to rule this Era of Impaired Moral Sufficiency. Not that this deficiency is a disease, but, it is the obvious outcome of the society that we are building up and living in today.