Kamran's Essay Introduction

Online Social Networking:

Another Miracle of Internet Technology

We are moving towards a world, in which computing technology is omnipresent and our life seems incomplete without it. One of the revolutionary technologies that have been with us for two decades is Internet technology. Since Internet technology supports several ways of communication, it remained to be a very useful tool/way of information exchange throughout the world. As one of its consequence, Internet has now become a tool for the social aspect of our lives and we are moving towards a virtual connected world during this decade. It can be realised in form of online social networking sites. Currently, there are more than hundreds of online social networking websites. People can socialize using theses websites through online communities as well as instant messaging.

In this essay, I’ll examine how online social networking is affecting our daily lives? Is it a healthy and best way of socializing between people? or is it taking us towards a physically disconnected world, where people are facing a new set of problems and issues, such as physical isolation, loneliness and identity theft, etc.