Why do we tag the different forms of these online network cultures as being an acceptable growth in society? Surely these networking ”social” or “unsocial” sites in their various guises of personal, business and religious or political internet medium have a major role to play in society generally? Well haven’t they?
Surely they promote lively discussion and even eventful behavior between their online members and create a stimulus for society to hook on to for either the promotion or destruction of someone or even something?
It’s very easy to identify the “unsocial aspect” of social networking websites and how popular it has become in the ordinary home and particularly to the younger generation of teenagers and young adults, as these youngsters try to fill their social need of acceptance by relating to people they perhaps have never even met. We can, of course, be quick to recognize how the unsocial aspect of relationships, when embodied in online impersonal behavior can cause the mind of the young person to drift into an unsocial or even an anti social direction and in spite of the hundreds and even thousands of connections that can be made in apparent new friendships, a proof of the substance in these friendships can come only through personal, physical sight and contact, without which, completion of the relationship is not experienced. However, what is experienced, even by the occasional social network user, is styles and forms of language culture and attitudes that have been allowed to “drip” into the minds and hearts of the social networker and to then persuade the networker to accept impressions of change which thereby distract the “social network” user from their complete function in their offline responsibilities; a rudeness in the attitude of the social network user then tends to become a substitute for domestic responsibility as a result of no clear focus coming from meaningless messages in incomprehensible language understood only by the connected users in the networks.
Offline, social networkers then begin to emulate in their lives, those online conversations, behaviors and connection technologies, which consequently thereby brings about division in the thinking and actions of family members. Family values then begin to erode and are even destroyed in the process.
Although the social network attracts all ages, an impressionable age for these networks to catch is that of the late teens and young adult. This age group is the immediate future of techno kids, who as technology advances to greater levels, become the advanced army of unsocial, disrespectful adults in years to come, being completely ignorant and devoid of family structures and family values; selfish to the core in their relationships with everyone and thing but the online social, but antisocial network.