Social Network

The Social networking revolution has brought the great wind of change in opening one personal self to public may it be micro blogging, chatting, mailing Or your public/private walls on the social network sites like face book, orkut, LinkedIn etc. however the word privacy has been viewed today in a new fashion till yesterday our elders used to feel it awkward or shy to share personal details before friends or relatives now the buzz word is ‘techgo’ everyone like to go with the technology and people seldom feel shame in sharing their personal photos, comments, thoughts, and of course their tweets. The new revolution has considerably changed the geographical meaning of the world to shrunk it on the fingertips nevertheless the distance is mentally reduced to seconds but it still take hours to reach the place. The emerging breakthrough in technology has brought the world in more synchronization to share, spread and symbolize the intrinsic and extrinsic nuances of their self and society.

The growing craze of masses in getting together with the social network and social media in discussing, debating, echoing their voices on the private and public issues to gain, gather and gear support, opinion and momentum to their life is new phenomena of this young civilization. It is swiftly becoming integral to human lives around the world. This also bring the great challenge to the future of this technology and the techgo’s lives that cannot imagine without internet, and sites like face book, or twitter, what if they suddenly dislodge to loose the connection in the world may be it is hypothetical to think for their extinguishment. The existence of social network sites has got both its boon and bane as the vulnerability of loosing privacy is to the maximum. The challenges like hacking and misuse of profiles, pictures, and personal data from the social network sites to the wrong use is the persisting and profound confront to tackle before the social network community.

However there is need to understand the whole concept and tame the sphere of this influx not to overtake and dominate our lives in over hyped social form. It would be wise if we keep a line of command to ourselves between social and personal sphere in accessing the technology and interaction with the world, it has became more essential to handle the technology appropriately for our purposeful use as the addiction can cruise you or sunk you; it is vital to be awake while being in the ocean of social network. The growing cases of people complaining about the breach of privacy and a revenge hack from teen agers and hackers by posting unsolicited material, and trying to rob the personal information  as screened in the movie ‘the social network’ is a turning to be a living reality that has increased the chances of vulnerability. we ourselves also have to share the blame for the poor knowledge of handling our data and privacy matters that brings unhappy consequences form social network against your life.

It is easy to ponder over the problem but what is effective is to find solution amidst this large problem. The protection or security policy of people who are part of this giant social network groups will be the fundamental question and responsibility of the sites producers who are looking after the network to protect any breach; there is also responsibility lies at the end-users who need to be selective in sharing the credible information on the virtual network, it could be not to everyone but to only their near and dear ones. This can also be done by keeping the contacts to minimum, there is need to prioritize on using and understanding the technology. We need to get ourselves educated about securing from any breach of personal self to wrong use; one can learn to use these sites and their personal accounts with sensitivity and intelligence on social network sites to evade any shortcomings.

The challenges on the social network sites also come with opportunities we find that the opportunities in socializing through the sites is on high pace, it has emerged as a new platform for the human expressions to reach the world and invite the world to reach us. The growing statistics of  social network sites is turning to be hub for consumerism; a common student from graduation college holds near about thousand contacts in her/his account which reflects on social grouping but it is very tiresome for her/his to remain connected every day to the three digit number of her/his contacts.

The other side of the coin is much brighter irrespective of the dark side of social network that came as sliver lining in bringing people together from distant frontiers to meet their friends and family away from home, the role of social network is instrumental in anchoring as melting pot and bringing different people belonging to different ethnicity, culture, and background on a single platform. The human invention has delivered both positive and negative fruits to the humanity but with this discovery humanity has got the reason to cheer for this civilization that holds a golden chapter on social network in the history.