Amigo...Amiga......
We cannot be 100% sure of the people both online and offline but, as people get more trust and security on virtual networks so are getting inclined towards social networks more.
when huge forums and blogging became the norm blog comments from a much larger group of casual connections.......
Social media makes a big world smaller.”
one of the worst things about social media is we can be surrounded by so many and still feel completely alone.”
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
Linkedin is for people you know, Facebook is for people you used to know, Twitter is for people you want to know.”.....
I remember the days before social media
20 phone calls per day and 50 or 60 emails, and felt exhausted by the pace of communication. Now we’ve traded the telephone for other connection points (I only get 2-3 calls per day), but the overall number of people ringing the doorbell....
The number of “inboxes” we possess is staggering: Email (3 accounts for me), public Twitter, Twitter DM, public Facebook, Facebook messages, Facebook chat, Linkedin messages, public Google +, Google + messages, blog comments, Skype, text messages, Instagram, phone, voice mail, and several topically or geographically specific forums, groups and social networks. That’s a lot of relationship bait in the water......
You think you know someone, but you don’t.
To be honest most of my real friends don't talk to me much online, and thats just fine, they are not in the same fields as me.....
Is this what we want – spending considerable time building large networks of shallow connections, potentially at the expense of deepening a few cherished friendships upon which we can truly rely?
I think it might be true that some folks don't utilize new media to communicate deeply, but that has to do with the person and not the technology. I don't think the ease of communication makes personal connection ...
harder or nonexistent. If anything, in my experience, the ease of communicating has made it easier to connect. I just don't think "it was so much better in the olden days".....
Meeting friends through social media, have the opportunity to interact in real life, and then develop a relationship that creates true friendship are few and far between. And as social media gets bigger and more pervasive, this chasm becomes even more difficult to cross.......
Facebook is the one exception, as I’ve always kept my personal account relatively small....belong to the “personal friends and family” group.....
The first false perception is, more relationships produce more opportunity. People continue to use social media to maintain offline relationships because it’s easy, convenient, and beneficial. We always say that it is not about what you know, it is about whom you know; thus we spend much time and energy to build friendship online. However, Bear points out, when we really look into our friends list, most of us would find a disturbing truth – “we hardly know anyone”.
We couldn’t really rely on cyber connections to introduce us to a new career or to get a raise out from the online interactions. Thus people’s belief in the benefit of keeping cyber connections is somewhat false, or at least doubtable.
A second false perception is the feeling of intimacy and closeness conveyed though cyber interaction
One can have hundreds of online friends and
Facebook friends, while in real life have barely a person to talk to......TO BE CONTINUED...