The social networks. Pros and cons of virtual life.Since the Internet appeared in every home, the life had changed significantly. Now, using the World Wide Web we have the possibility to buy goods not in the store, to read books not in a library, to watch movies not in the cinema and to interact with people without leaving our homes. The Internet gave to us a lot of opportunities, but what did it take? Let’s compare the pros and cons of social networking.The CommunicationPros: Perhaps this point is the main task of the social networks. Friends, relatives are often thousands of miles away, the communication with classmates and former colleagues is lost, but social networking is just a perfect method to maintain this communication. The virtual communication allows you to keep abreast of events, because a business person will hardly find time to telephone weekly all of his friends and relatives. Due to these online resources people can find each other even after decades. Also in social networks you can always meet interesting people, with whom you might never had met in real life, and even to find love.Cons: Unfortunately, despite the obvious advantages, Internet communication is replacing the real communication. The facial expressions, emotions, intonation, gestures are replaced by icons and emoticons. Over the time, this type of conversation can play a cruel joke with you. If a person works at home and communicates only through " odnoklassniki " or "Vkontakte”, there will come a time when communicating with real people will seem to be difficult and uncomfortable, but nature had created the man to live among the people. Also, many people, communicating on the Internet, embellish their qualities, abilities and appearance, creating an ideal and successful image. Naturally, it does not seem attractive to them to refuse this mask and to become a normal person, and in such situation it can appear serious psychological problems.JobPros: Oddly enough, but social networks often are really helpful in your work. First of all, these capabilities are used by companies to find employees. People are usually gathered into interest groups, professions, hobbies and this makes it easy to find the right person. Secondly, in the social networks you can constantly communicate with both colleagues and competitors, as we all know that in business you need to know theenemy in the face. Thirdly, many companies choose such sites, to search for customers, partners and to attract mass advertising of their products.Cons: Everything has its disadvantage, and in this case it is obvious. If an employee, arriving to work, firstly opens his favorite site, and during the day does not think about work, but about when another friend will appear online, and he doesn’t go out from the of fice during lunch to breathe fresh air, but is permanently typing on the keyboard... you can guess how well does he copes with his responsibilities. In fact, the social networking with its huge number of friends is the true enemy of the time. Americans have conducted studies and found that last year the time spent in virtual communication, increased by 43%.InterestsPros: One of the enjoyable moments associated with social networks is the interaction with like-minded person. Here you can always share your impressions about a new film, to advise others to download an unknown album of a popular band, to talk about the pros and cons of some acquisitions, to find people who, as you, collect tubes of toothpaste, etc.Cons: Do not forget that the overindulgence on dialogue with computerlike-minded people might be end with loosing real friends. Psychologists are increasingly expressing the alarm about children who do not know what means to play in the yard and from morning to evening are sitting at the computer. Researchers focused their attention on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo and came to the unequivocal conclusion that Internet communication makes people self-centered.Comparing the positive and negative aspects of social networking, is most importantly to come to the same wise conclusion: everything is good in moderation! The social networks is only a tool that can simplify our lives in today's fast paced rhythms, but it doesn’t make us humans that are not adapted to live in society. You shouldn’t be dependent on social networks, but its rating depends from your visit!。
