This is a kutti post on the facts I have read about social networking sites.. As many of my friends know I have been working on Online Relationships (as a part of which I have pained them to answer my questionnaire :P ). If I have to start about this topic anytime I remember a question posed my cousin two years earlier, "In this world full of uncertainty and lies, we cannot believe or rely on a person we watch daily infront of us. How can we trust a person, somewhere out in the world, without seeing, for record we dont even know that identity exists or not."
So true!
Yet, in this same world of uncertainty and lies, people trust the strangers more!
But HOW? WHY?
Who knows. That is what I am dealing with. With the incomplete survey, I just have only these statistics for now.
- Social networking sites started in 1994
- Revolutionised by MySpace in 2003
- Facebook, the present king of social networking sites created by Mark Zuckerberg (God! He was 20)
- 500 millions in FB
- Other websites for knowledge based interaction are teachstreet, patientlikeme, kiva etc.,
- 13 millions in orkut from India
- 4 millions in FB
- 3 millions in bharatstudent.com
- Web-users in 2001 were 70 lakhs, which increased to 8.2 crores in India
- Cell-phone users in 2001 were just 50 lakhs, which increased to 70 crores by Dec, 2010 in India
This interaction leading to Friendship and marriages, but also illegal activities and social evils.
For a rosy picture start, here is an example of social activity helped by social networking site.
For the documentary "Dreadful Fate" the team was formed using Orkut. "Dreadful fate" is on floride problem in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Well, good. But is this all?
Have you seen "Lage Raho Munnabhai"
I have a series of dialogues memorised in that film.
"...... Internet se saari duniya se touch mein hai.. Par pados mein kaun rehta hai, janthe tak nahi ........ mobile, landline sab ki barmar hai, par jigri dost tak pahunchne ki aisi taar kaha hai....... agar yahi jeena hai doston, toh phir marna kya hai"
(We are connected to the whole world through internet, but we do not know who lives next door. We have the techonology of mobile, landline and such, but what is the medium we could reach a best friend, as in find a best friend. If we call this life, then what is death?)
Will be back with my complete survey.....
Sources : Saakshi - Telugu Daily Newspaper
Eenadu - Sunday addition
