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Nowadays, one cannot live a day without accessing the social network sites and they can’t be blamed because social networking has become a big part of our lives, especially through the existence of gadgets such as smart phones, which help us to access apps such as; Twitter, Facebook, Istagram, Whatsapp and many more. I remember the moment Whatsapp went down for an hour; it felt as if my whole world had come to standstill and I was receiving all these messages from friends will all sorts of suggestions. Why it went down? And how we can’t live without it. There was panic everywhere, from Twitter to Facebook. It seemed as if catastrophic event took place even though there was none.

It is a very obvious fact that social networking impacts a person’s psychological state, since every minute someone is logged on. Therefore, becoming addicted to the websites after being logged on for a while and these distances them from the rest of the world as they are becoming more and more unaware of the real world surrounding them. We as students are beginning to procrastinate our work and waste our times on the networks, instead of school work, and other things we should be focusing on. Also the issue of cyber bullying is rising rapidly in the past couple of years due to the popularity of social networking. Children at the tender age of four even have Facebook profile making them easy prey for bullies and psychopaths such as paedophiles.

I genuinely believe that social networking makes people act differently. Majority of the time they pretend to be someone they-re not through writing. A good example is a teenage boy, who posted “my parents didn’t give me Christmas gifts” on his Facebook profile, in order to draw sympathy from friends; but he forg...

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... pictures and messages instead of enjoying the dinner. Furthermore to add insult to (self-inflicted) injury, a few days later during work-related phone call, he was told by the other person – who has never crossed his threshold – how much he "just loved" the lamps hanging above Mr Bilton kitchen table.

In conclusion, social network is simply destroying social life. Children no long play outside. Family chats are becoming a thing of the past as the majority of parents now communicate regularly with their children through social network sites. You would see normally sane, well-adjusted, intelligent people lose not only their judgment but also their marbles when confronted with the opportunities for exposure offered by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp to mention a few and that is why I would get ride social networking in order to improve life in 21st century.