Social Media and Social Networking

Get Social!

Posts Tagged ‘social life’

How to Beat the Social Networking Addiction!

Posted by Vaibhav Kalamdani on April 5, 2009

Today, one of the most difficult things for majority of us is to spend a day without logging in to a social networking site. Everyday, most (if not all) of us access atleast one social network to know what our friends are upto, or to let people know about what’s happening in our life. Slowly and steadily, this process becomes repetitive, eventually turning out to be an addiction, isn’t it?

I have come across many people who spend a lot of time using various applications that sometimes provide absolutely “nonsense” results. Secondly, when you actually see your friends’ activity on the site, you realize that most of the updates take place in regular intervals within a day. This shows that people log in multiple times on a social network in a single day to pass their time, doing nothing productive.

With the rise in time spent on social networking sites, we can clearly see two major transformations taking place: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Articles | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Social Networking – Boon or Bane to the Society?

Posted by Vaibhav Kalamdani on February 5, 2009

One of the most commonly asked questions today is  “are you on Facebook?” or “did you check out the latest pics on my profile?” It is amazing how social networks have completely changed people’s habits, becoming a must-visit Web destination for all. In fact, if you find a friend not using any of the popular social networking services, it seems strange. Thoughts like “is he/she living in today’s world” and “how can he/she afford to miss such a great thing when the entire world is buzzing around it” start coming to your mind the moment you realize your friend’s absence on the site. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Articles | Tagged: , , , | 50 Comments »