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How can social networking be improved?

Is quality of life declining rather than being improved by social networking sites? (i.e. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc) By making users addicted to the  internet rather than allowing people to take a more pleasure in real life experiences?

  • This is related to the fact that people have stopped taking real life experiences and accepted what is shared on sites like facebook, quora. Take for example proposing to a girlfriend... if you keep reading it on quora about it, the spontaneity and originality and emotion would be lost....... It is similar to what computer games and now online games have done given a false sense of ability in that sport or game where we feel like winners.Have we lost faith in first hand experiences losing the natural tendency of making mistakes, working hard and experiencing things they come

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    Social networks actively TRY to make users addicted to their sites and work to integrate them into daily life as much as possible. Because of how the sites tend to reward popular content (likes, followers, etc) I believe it has created a mental game of life that clearly divides winners and losers. If you're a person who tends to feel envious or insecure, social networks can often make things worse. If you're a person who likes to be the center of attention, you can easily get that. As far as lowering the quality of life in general, I'm not sure because that is very subjective. Because of the gamified nature of FB, it creates a game out of real life experiences that makes it too easy to compare yourself to others. Instead of being jealous of your neighbors car, you can now be jealous of thousands of other people's cars. While I agree it's up to the user to decide to be inspired or uninspired by the Internet and social networks, by nature the best and most popular rise to the top and that can certainly make you feel inadequate, thus lowering the quality of life. No longer are you the best dancer in the room, you're just another wannabee compared to the thousands you just watched on YouTube.

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There has to be a fine balance with every activity or resource we use in life. The internet is a place that can easily become a dependence vs. tool. Thousands of years ago people depended on fire for light, warmth, or inventing/developing tools. Fire was a lot of things that it just isn't anymore today. I hope the internet will be the same- this generation uses the internet for light (access to information), warmth (social engagement) and developing tools (financial or professional ROI). That's OK on a person to person basis but for our children I fear the consequences... http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/10/03/this-is-your-childs-brain-on-angry-birds/

Nadia Leung

Getting spoiled or improved totally depends on how you structure your time to spend in various activities during the day and what are your priorities in life. The internet is a self tutor of any subject you want to learn or enjoy in your free time. Social networking sites gives you exposure to interact with others and opportunity to put forth your views on various issues on Facebook/Twitter/blogs etc. On Quora you learn to write answers and know the views of others also can read the answers given by others. Your knowledge will improve. While answering you need to have sufficient knowledge of various subjects. Your time is at your disposal to spend either to get spoiled or improved through the help of the internet. As you sow, so you will reap.

Rajesh Kumar Agarwal

NO. It is we who have degraded, not life due to social networks. Today also you feel same happiness if: You cut away from the whole world, switch off your internet for two minutes, and go in your balcony and feel the cold breeze. Or, to walk alone on a road at night, looking at the trees and moon and smiling. Or remembering your childhood, thinking how stupid you were when you did XYZ and thinking......I want to live like that again :)  Or helping an old person in his/her work and if they are your grandparents, talking to them and listening about THEIR ERA ;) Or when you come out of a mall with some eatable and a kid asks for it, giving it to him/her and looking at their smile. Or when you are in a lift and the doors are closing and you see a person with heavy luggage, and you stop the lift despite getting late. Or despite of getting frustrated when your mom asks you everytime whether you had your breakfast, lunch ,dinner when you go out...you find a packet of biscuit in your bag when you are extremely hungry. Or while reading this, you remember all this and gently smile :) Thanks for reading

Ankit Verma

Ask yourself this: would providing free designer drugs to the populace improve or damage society? When you get addicted to these time wasting outlets it's akin to being in a simulated relationship. You wake up, you have to nourish twitter, feed FB. You have to become these networking sites virtual slave in a real sense. It's gotten so far gone that companies are now demanding that potential employee's HAVE a presence on twitter and FB, which is so mindlessly prejudicial in my opinion.Go check out http://adbusters.org they have very provacative articles that denounce the effects of social networks and other modern aspects of life. 

Urbcat

Here are my views on this one... https://aanchal.quora.com/Feeling-Blue-Are-you

Aanchal Mittal

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