in the news #4 Social Networking

This is a very interesting article and it has much truth to it. These social networking sites have become apart of most of our lives. They are extremly addictive and a bit harmful. Harmful in that, people spend most of their time browsing these sites and forget some of the most important aspects of their lives. Just recently I had to delete my account on both myspace and hi5, and before that, tagged. It seemed ridiculous that most of my time was spent sitting around the computer browsing these sites and important things that should have been done like my home work were delayed. These sites are very addictive because of the different applications that accompany them as well as the many pictures of friends that everyone is just so eager to see. I think thats the main reason why people go on these sites, to see their friends pictures and show theirs as well. This might just be a phase, I dont know, but whether or not the fact still remains that these sites are addictive, harmful and of little importance.