Social Networking

Samantha Cupingood wants to go to the moon (11:40 a.m.)

What is the attraction of so many teens to Facebook or Myspace sites? Many kids think that if they involve themselves in the social networks they can gain friends and share who they are. People post their pictures; update their status, and communicate with their friends. This way of living is one that I don’t agree with. Many teens that use these sites, in my mind, are taking the easy way out of communicating with people in the real world. If people start using technology in everyday survival they are going to forget how to survive in reality. In today’s technology, people learn about each other because of pictures on their sites and comments that they read, or things that they post about themselves. I feel as though people don’t even try to get to know people by simply sitting down and having a conversation anymore. The internet is diminishing society as we use to know it. I know that when I would use Myspace, people I didn’t know, only heard of, would add me and start a conversation. I hated meeting people on the internet I believe that it makes a person sound pathetic. If you want to meet people then go out to events and be outgoing and talk to people that you don’t know. I think that everyone should go back to meeting people the old fashion way because otherwise I think that people are becoming fake because they don’t allow people to find out who they are, they tell people who they are.