The Attack of the Social Network

I am looking for my privacy...has anyone seen it?

Social Media and Networking has overcome companies and our daily lives by storm.It is almost impossible to be a stranger when one can simply Google someone's name and enjoy a selection of information on them. Whether it be the persons Linkedin page, their Facebook page, or their incredibly embarrassing photos from Spring Break six years ago, networking no longer has a basis for strangers. Rather, it is an introduction of people whom are equipped with many outlets that already provides information on the other.

So then, one might ask, what is the point of human interaction anymore? If we no longer have to hold conversations with each other because the information is already at out fingertips; perhaps we meet each other just for the pleasing aesthetics of our presence to one another.

This is where I completely am against the dark tunnel that Social Networks are taking us on. Not only do we lose sight of the importance of human interaction, but we also lose a bit of ourselves along the way. We lose the ability to explain that we are not party animals, and those pictures from Spring Break were really just the result of a Dare your friends made you commit.

In summation, for my term paper, I will approach the negative aspects of Social Networking and the impacts it has had on our society. I will research the difference between humans who interact on Social Networks and humans who do not and those implications on their real "Social Networks". Most importantly, I want to know if the presence of these Social Networks has changed our perceptions of reality and how people see themselves communicating (or not communicating) in the future, and through what outlets.