Social Network Fever

Essay on the topic: «Social Network Fever»

By Ekaterina Denisevich

Group 213 FMK

It is not a secret that nowadays the most popular way of communication is social networking. 80% of people from about 6 to 60 years old have their profiles on different sites, such as Vkontakte, Facebook, Myspace and so on. Social networking can be called a malady nowadays and it is, probably, as dangerous as smoking or drug addiction in the modern society.

One of the most popular social network Vkontakte was founded in the year 2006. And now we can definitely call it a fever. Very quickly the popularity of this website has become international. In the year 2008 there was a serious outbreak of it’s popularity and now it serves users from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries which proves that this kind of fever is very contagious. Moreover it is a kind of catching disease, because it was spreading very quickly “by droplet infection”, when friends told each other about it.

What are the symptoms of that kind of fever and why it is so dangerous? First of all you may feel the lack of spare-time. You may not recognize it at first. But for sure you will soon realize that you haven’t seen your friends and even relatives for ages in the real life. You see them online every day and that is why you won’t realize it so soon. You may also have constant headaches and sometimes you may feel even dizziness or sickness. These are the results of sitting at home without fresh air and physical exercises. You may feel some kind of a backache, because your back is not used to sitting on the chair all day while you are serving the internet. Your stomach also wouldn’t be happy about you have caught this fever. People and especially teenagers sometimes forget to eat at all or they start eating unhealthy junk-food, because social networking takes them too much time. This could become a reason of gastritis. And of course you will soon have problems with your eyes. Many children may become even aggressive because of the constant serving the internet and the loss of communication with the real world. The most dangerous consequences of this disease are: weak eyesight, scoliosis, gastritis, severe headaches or hemicranias, different problems with nervous system and even nervous breakdowns.

A lot of parents nowadays are worried about their children whose main interest is social networking. They want to know are there any remedies for this disease. They sometimes even take their children to the psychologists or psychiatrists. There are no any pills or mixtures for that kind of fever. That is why everyone should be very careful about the internet and social networking and use them not as “drugs” but as “vitamins” which can help him to make their real life easier, but not to replace the reality.