Except that they are same literally, there is nothing common between the title of the post and that of the blog. Before you leave this post having decided otherwise, let me assure you , I have not lost track.
When I received the invitation for joining orkut (I hope it doesn’t need an intro now) 3 years ago, I could hardly imagine that what I was rejecting outrightly would one day be a way of life of most of the netizens of the Generation next. After ignoring three- four invitations I gave it a half-hearted try and became one of the first few thousands members of the network.
I do not belong to the lot who keep their personal spaces safe to share them with their fellow residents in the heaven only. But what has caught attention is the very readiness of baring all on the social web in all spheres. This practice of sharing the most personal memoirs in the form of videos, snaps or anything else and the most hardly earned information has progressed at such a fast pace that the swiftest of the surveys and researches could not accomplish their goals before the maturing of the phenomenon called social networking itself.
During all this adaptation of a new way of communicating there has been one casualty, completely ignored and that’s privacy. It has been rejected, dismissed and sabotaged at the cost of social acceptance in the virtual world of web. There is not only a philosophical side of it. Of late all this information has been made available to the government and the various agencies leave alone the commercial uses.
Moreover, you can see numerous communities discussing topics of no relevance. There are facilities available, which are not only legally prohibited but punishable offences in the law of the land. These self-acclaimed remedies of wounds received during our very own kumbh’ fairs (pun intended) have largely undermined our good-old-days’ channels of communication. The picture could become gloomier before things are put in the right perspective.
The moral of the story is that care has to be taken for being a party to this new way of socialization. Though the utility of the fast mode of connecting, these works-on-net provide, cannot be overemphasized, the very vices they bring with themselves should be felt and deserve a cautious deal.
4 comments:
Dude, with good things come a few bad ones. Absolute privacy is impossible on the net and that's for greater good as the very existence of it can put us in more trouble than it would do us good. Imagine the rise in internet crime if criminals have a fool proof way of concealing their identity.
The first thing you do when you log on to the web is compromising your security and that's inevitable. For the 'private social interaction' we may choose other methods. ;)
Did I question the sanctitude of these sites anywhere? I guess no! I just gave an account on what could be possible and many times avoidable risks associated with these networks.
"The greatest vice is advise" :D
jokes apart, i must agree with you on the point of being aware about vices of the so prevalent online methods of socialization.
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