Dilemma of social media networks

Madhubhashini Rathnayaka

You meet an unknown person on the road. You go to him and ask “Can I be your friend?” Then you go for another person and ‘poke’ him. You go to your friend’s home and write on his/her front wall something weird. You are holding a board ‘Interested in men’. You ask someone “shall I follow you?” and then start to follow him/her.

What I previously said were acted out in some recent videos in internet “Can I be your friend?” “If instant message were real” and “Facebook in Reality”, which are hilarious.

Think a while, isn’t it same we do in Facebook, Twitter or any other social Network. Though those videos were such a laughing stock, they reveal an underline truth of Social Media life that we are having today.

Facebook is considered the third largest country in the world regarding its population. Twitter is becoming a popular means in updating each and every moment in your life; even when you are having a coffee you tend to tweet “I’m having a coffee with my old friend! Youtube has become the place that anyone can share any moving picture, and blogging makes every person a journalist or a reporter (though there is a controversy on truth of the content). Now with Gootgle+; we are looking forward a change with it. Today our social relationships have become so easy. If you want to be a friend of anyone you can find his/her profile in Facebook and simply have to send a friend request. If he/she accepts it, you are friends.

The movie “The Social Networks” directed by David Fincher which is about the evolution of “Face Book” is a masterpiece of new culture of relationships.

Is Cyber Friendship real or is it a “Fantasy Friendship”?

Open for discussion.