The appeal of social networking websites such as Orkut; Facebook; MySpace; Hi5 etc. is that it does not let you go. Once you have logged in you cannot just leave it. One would have never known that leaving scarps for friends and acquaintances is such fun. After a person joins any of the social networking sites slowly and slowly more people start discovering that person. There are a few from some organization, few from some other organization, few college mates and few school friends and it keeps rolling. The list of friends in always growing and as you interact with each other there comes a time when you feel that you have so many things common with many people. This urge to find like minded people can be done through these sites and so no one can resist it.
If a person is an outgoing, extrovert, fun loving, looking for friends, then, yes these social networking websites is an addiction. These websites are friendship based sites, where people create their profile, few would be genuine and rest all would be fake, and upload their pictures to share with those friends who are far, and cannot be contacted. The addiction of Facebook/Orkut is such that it has been banned in many offices and the reason given is wastage of man power.
On these sites one starts searching friends from one friend, then go on to peep in their profile, search for community/pages/groups/applications that interest you. There are variety communities with such diversity as from cars to condoms or dolls to dialysis. You join a community/group and then you become active, people will post some comment and then it goes on and goes on, and hence the first thing as soon as you are on the net is that you would do is to login to these websites to check whether any one posted some new messages/comments in your profile or not.
These websites are so addictive that one would love to sit on it for hours together, for such frivolous reasons like looking for friends, reading comments/testimonials and scraps for other friends, or serious reasons like searching for pages/communities that might be of an interest to you and its whole group of world filled from Antarctica to Australia.
Addiction to these websites has reached new levels; people spend their free time reading and writing wall to wall posts/ scraps on these so called social networking sites. It is one of the more addicting things on campus - but the biggest benefits of it is that it really does put you back in touch with old high school friends and you can see what they’re up to and all that.
Social networking make available many capabilities including online dating, people who share the same hobbies and interests as well as possible business connections. Once the line of your interest is known you ill be able to keep in touch with people having same interest and also create your own pages/forums/community or special interest arena. The special interest arena lets you have many discussions on many topics the scope runs deep with these websites as there are many variations available. Social networking in itself is very addictive. On such websites everyone knows when your birthday is and they all say happy birthday, as if they all knew you. So happy Social Networking to you all.
