SOCIAL NETWORKING AND FRIENDSHIP

Our minds are not designed to allow us to have more than a very limited number of people in our social world. After the invention of postal service, social interaction improved but the thing that brought about revolution in social communication-how to relate one another is social networking.

Social networking sites have allowed the people to have thousands of “friends” but unfortunately, they are unable to devise the way that how to maintain and strengthen the relationships. This is one of the critical aspects of social networks that I have been experiencing for two years.

It is human nature to have a small number of actual friends but technology allowed us to have limitless online friends. Different social networks like Face book, Twitter, Linked in etc and other digital media are busy in opening up new vistas, all from the comfort of our own homes. These social network sites have forced us to go out of our small individual worlds where the handful of people we meet, in our everyday lives.

According to a research, in real world, we devote 40 percent of our limited social time each week to the five most important people we know, who represent just 3 percent of our social world and a trivially small proportion of all the people alive today.

Since the time invested in a relationship determines its quality, having more than five best friends is impossible when we interact face to face, one person at a time.

In conclusion, I can say that revolution of social networking has converted this world into electronic friendship village where there is no limit on having friends.

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