A few years ago, when one of the first social networks appeared, this caused real excitement. Everyone wanted to create their own account and increase the number of friends. As you might expect, over time, the problem arose of the dependence of young people on the social network.
The original purpose of social networks was to unite people. Thanks to them, it became possible to keep communication from a distance. Many found their relatives, classmates, childhood friends. Ability to correspond to the network significantly saves money on the mobile account, especially if the package of Internet services is unlimited, because you do not have to call another country. It is convenient to solve problems quickly, in addition, you can correspond with several people at once.
A positive feature of social networks was the possibility of creating interest groups. Everyone will be able to find something that he likes, from the official groups of favorite performers, ending with a discussion of tropical butterflies or fashionable novelties. Such groups are convenient for student youth, because thanks to them it is always possible to learn the news of the university, schedule or assignments in subjects.
And on the other hand in many respects it was this function that caused dependence on young people. At one time there was even a real "boom" for joining groups. In most cases, all invitations turned out to be advertising, at the best, of any goods, and in the worst porn sites. By and large, it's enough to put a filter on invitations and the problem will be solved by itself, but it will help those who are against such mailings. Adolescents, who for various reasons lack parental care, are left to themselves and the former fall into dependence on social networks. Needless to say, such communication in groups does not lead to anything good.
Even ardent opponents of social networks sometimes fall into dependence on them. And the reason is access to multimedia files. Thanks to the "sotsialkam" do not have to spend time looking for a new movie or a song heard on the radio, because all of this is probably already on someone's page. And while the clip loads, you start to view pictures, photos, and then completely forget why you actually went. So you gradually start to "hang" on the Internet without the need.
Social networks, such as Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, allow you to be aware of most of the events that occur in the lives of your "friends", celebrities. Hanging from albums of the past birthday, a successful trip, photoshoots, eloquent statuses - all this may be a lie, unless they were posted by your real acquaintance. But curiosity takes precedence - and you sit up late, trying not to miss the news and gradually become addicted. Than it is fraught? The rejection from the outside world, the perception of people exclusively by profiles in social networks and simply wasted time, which could be spent together with real friends, to learn how their affairs are not by status, but through communication.
Dependencies also trigger flash applications. Especially often, people suffer to whom any computer games replace everything else. The problem in this case is also the pumping out of money. Purchase of bonus funds, transition to a new level. Gone with excitement, a person does not control his actions and is able to invest a lot of money for such bonuses. For the sake of fairness, we note that they are most often parental and such waste is committed, as a rule, without their knowledge.
This can include a maniacal desire to increase the rating on the network to give virtual gifts, which naturally grows for paid SMS messages. And if you understand, then the rating only allows you to be higher in the list of friends, and no more. Really for the sake of it it is necessary to be spent? !!
But the rest of the applications can be very useful. Through them you can listen to the radio, translate texts, check the data transfer speed. Just put a check mark in the settings, reject all invitations and you will not be tempted to install an unnecessary "flash drive".
Many young people become hostages to a virtual image. Dependencies often fall on those who created their ideal image through an account. Thus, people try to assert themselves, especially if in reality everything is not as cloudless as on the pages of their profile. As a rule, they do not seek to meet in life, because they are afraid to appear before people as they are in reality. This kind of dependence is fraught with psychological disorders, closure and not the desire to go on contact outside the network. In such cases, the help of a psychologist is necessary.
Even if you do not have such a problem, think about how to post personal information on your page. In our time, social networks are used not only for communication, but also for collecting various information about a person. If you want to specify a contact number or a mailbox address, close the page from outside users.
Dependence of young people on popular social networks is a scourge of modern society. And you should make a lot of efforts to overcome this problem. If your life sometimes resembles a famous anecdote: "I went to the Internet for five minutes - an hour and a half has passed," then it's time to take action and wean ourselves from the senseless burning of time at the computer. Do not turn communication into correspondence, better take from social networks only useful and know how to press the "exit" button in time.