Sandip Mitra
HR-Professional
Rima Saha , 24 years old, MBA student
(name changed)
loves to make new friends in
Facebook and Wechat. Share
almost everything with them.
“Feeling alone”, “watching movie”,
“enjoying cold coffee”, “at
Aquatica”, even after knowing exam is
nearby and its time to study,
she wasted her time by updating
status like “It's time to
study”…!!!
26 years old, Surya Dutta (name changed) works at a
26 years old, Surya Dutta (name changed) works at a
reputed company, after
completing software engineering. He has
a bright future as he is hard
working and talented, but he is
addicted at social networks. At
first he used to connect with his
friends through office computers
during working hours. The
upper Management was alert and
to make their employees
concentrate on their work, they
blocked the way to get into any
social networks. But modern
science has gifted us smart phones,
through which Surya continued
the same avoiding the close
circuit cameras.
These things are normal for young generation. Most of them are
addicted to these social
networks and spend hours with it. Many
of them have more than one
account, in Wechat, Facebook,
Line, like networks.
Because of this addiction, sometime
students forget their
classes, exams, appointments
also. They keep chatting and send
messages even when they are
walking on the streets or crossing
the road. Accidents also don't
make them aware. Interesting
thing is that the young
generation, which is famously known as
Gen-Y, is very busy and they are
habituated to do multi-tasks.
But the truth is most of them
are busy with their social network
friends and the virtual world.
They don't bother about the real
world or the facts which are
surrounded by them. As a result they
tend to lie and bluff with their
friends. Some believe in the lies
and some don't. Value of
friendship has gone down so much that
a simple click can start it or
it can break it. The young generation
nowadays doesn't trust their childhood
friends; but they like to meet with unknown “friends”, share phone numbers and
other personal details. The
use of social media has become
so easy and widespread that notorious people use it for wrong reasons.
Young people use the spellings of social networks even when
they are writing formal
documents as they tend to be shorter and
easier to type. They generally
write thanks as “10X” or “thnx”, time
as “tym”, morning as “mrng”
night as ”nyt” or “ni8”, then as “den”,
tomorrow as “2morw”. They are confused
whether the spelling is
“college” or “collage”, because
they are habituated to write “clg” in
short, and they welcome their
friends by saying “wlcm” instead of
“welcome”.
They hardly spend time with
their parents, instead they like to talk
with them through the chat box.
Even when they go out with their
family or friends, then also
they keep touch with their social
network friends and keep them
informed by updating status. They
always keep in touch of what is
going on in these networks; they
are always in a hurry to put
comments, likes and replies in their
own photos and status, as well
as in others.
The present generation is
energetic, multi-talented but they are
wasting their energy because of
this addiction which is hampering
their careers.
At the end it is important to
say that social network is not bad if we
are not addicted to it. It helps
to keep touch with friends and
relatives those who stay in
other city or abroad. We hardly get
scope to meet with them, but it
makes easy to get them through
these sites. It is possible to
share photos and videos of memorable
moments and people get
opportunity of video conferencing also.
Anything too much is bad for us,
and that is what happening for
this generation. Social networks
should be used but keeping some
limitations.
PS :
written by Sandip Maitra
during management study. Articles was already published in his college
e-magazine
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