Real World And Virtual. Social network

The 21st century is the "information age". An integral part of people's lives became a computer. But how does it affect society?

In our time it is difficult to imagine our life without the latest technology. But, for example, the computer has a positive and negative impact on society. The main opportunity that he gives us is access to the Internet. The Internet is a global web, a global network that allows users to search for information of interest, communicate with people who are located at another point of the Earth. It also helps children in school, adults in work, gives an opportunity to see other cities, countries and performs many interesting functions.

But at the same time, the Internet has a negative impact on people. So-called "virtual addiction" is very common now. A person who spends a long time at the computer, in particular in social networks, begins to get used to the "virtual life". He sits all day in front of the monitor and forgets about everyday problems, the people who surround him, ceases to feel the line between the real world and the virtual one. Many scientists consider this behavior a mental illness, from which there are no medications. Unfortunately, the number of people with this disease is constantly growing.

Most often this problem concerns young people. Now there are a lot of social networks, the most popular in Russia is "VKontakte". It appeared not so long ago, in 2006, but already managed to gain more than 100 million users. Each user has a page on which he talks about himself, his preferences, communicates with his friends, shares his thoughts. Thanks to this social network, a person can watch movies for free, listen to music, create groups and discuss a problem. People do their favorite things without leaving home.

Another well-known social network is Odnoklassniki. It does not register a large number of people and according to statistics, mostly not young people, but the older generation. "Classmates" were created to allow users to find their friends with whom they lost touch, possibly even distant relatives, who for some reason do not communicate. But later appeared the same functions as in "VKontakte".

Of course, all these possibilities help people to get distracted from their problems, to rest, to learn a lot of new things, but unfortunately many people do not think that the social network is not a real world and they forget about their daily life, and there is a "virtual Dependence ", from which it is very difficult to get rid of.

I believe that social networks naturally benefit, but people should try not to spend more time with them, but with their lives and others, because it is much more pleasant to communicate with a person at a meeting, to see his emotions, a smile, than spend all day at a computer and To lose those happy moments, which then can not be returned. I hope that people will understand this and begin to appreciate their lives and will waste their time with benefit.