Social networking sites, since their arrival have awed us humans. Most of us believe they are here to stay. One is born today and when it ages another social networking site takes over the scene – takes over the legacy.
Human beings who usher them into their worlds have gone to great lengths praising feature after feature packed in the social networking sites.
We human beings marvel at the ease of communication without spending ‘lots’ of money. The social networking sites bring us closer to family members and friends miles away. We get to make lots of friends out of strangers – we have never even met.
Most people spend a considerable amount of time chatting with their friends on Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Bebo, Hi5 among other social networking sites. On the contrary, some are hooked to the sites (especially Facebook ) so badly that they have been labelled ‘addicts’.
Others use the social networking sites as a sort of a boxing ring where they can thump anyone who disagrees with their opinions, views and perceptions. They automatically label such persons ‘opponents’. They enjoy abusing and threatening the ‘opponents’ – it makes them feel better somehow considering the number of frustrations that take every man, woman and child by storm on a daily basis. They derive more pleasure from their wrongs especially if the ‘opponents’ seem weaker and more susceptible to their threats. They’ll label such ‘cyber-weaklings’. They’ll think of every way possible to see that the victims feel unsafe, hated and weak.
One major problem is that oftenly such abuse goes unnoticed for a long period of time. Some victims cannot abate such abuse in the initial stages. They don’t report it either to the sites’ administrators. Often they have reasons for doing so, ranging from answers such as: ‘that’s something not worthy reporting’, ‘looks like the person had a bad day’ or ‘he’s just venting his emotions’. They don’t appreciate the fact that that may be the genesis of a long jail term in the prison of exploitation, that have made some victims fear for their lives and others let their self-esteem go with the wind.
Enmity grows fatter in social networking when abuse by members is not monitored and stern measures taken against those who go against the terms of use of the particular social networking site they are member to. Such enmity has made some members go berserk, ending up doing things that gets them a new tag, that of being called a criminal. Rows between friends on top and less popular social networking sites are on the rise with the number of members ever on the increase.
Another problem arises where some members read from different sources, including traditional books, ebooks and various blogs of their interest, copy and paste materials from them to their status updates or notes or discussions without crediting the source of the information and oftenly you’ll see a ‘by:’ followed by their name – Sort of plagiarism.
The big question is: How are users supposed to enjoy the services on the social networking sites while at the same time limiting the potential dangers in there…without worries of ever becoming victims of the same dangers?
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