FACEBOOK- A CURSE THAT SHOULD BE BANNED

Dear Audience

                        We live in a society today which is vortexed with social networking websites which is now not just beholden to the younger generation as well as old. The older lot loves to re-connect to their loved ones and progenies on social sites. The craze started from Orkut where it picked up the popularity in 2005-06 which was incepted by Orkut Büyükkökten a Turkish software engineer who intended to do so to re-connect to his lost girl friend who is now his wife. The very purpose paid off well contrary to the very perception by himself that it would be marred. The rage of Orkut continued to be till 2008-09 until Facebook came to the social networking fraternity which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. It caught the eyeballs of the youngsters with many better features with options of LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE. Over the period of time Orkut literally has now got buried and Facebook has reached a hysterical rage with twitter, albeit the latter having a limited audiences of industrious celebrities and the former has a much broader mass to appeal. The celebrities prefer twitter over facebook for one of the apparent reasons where crazy ordinary lay fans cannot hound them to add to their agonies of encroaching their privacy by having the option of only to FOLLOW them. Having said this, facebook is as much popular as Twitter may be.

                        However let me put it succinctly my views of contention, facebook being an over-addiction these days have started hampering on the psychological mind-sets of youngsters which may have cascading effects on the later stages of their adulthood. Let alone, the students who are ensnarled with their smart phones in colleges not paying heed to their lectures/ lecturers, the younger employees in offices too shrug away from their job responsibilities aside only to get glued to their smart phones operating facebook and the latest hit Whatsapp. The irony doesn’t even end here, the young faculties, lecturers don’t impart lectures and instead beseech their class students to add them as FRIENDS by sending FRIEND REQUESTS or exchanging numbers in case of connecting on Whatsapp.

                        Initially when facebook started gaining the popularity, the smart phones weren’t much into the picture, making office goers or collegians scrambling to their office or college desktops out of unmitigated infatuation towards it. Since this violent turbulence of FB had a boisterous uproar, the rage started hampering the organizations goals set for employees, making the offices to restrict the access of fb in much disdain. But this sigh of relief for companies were short-lived, as the tumultuous craze hit the smart phones too when they got introduced in India in much broader mobile handsets market, wherein now, blocking such websites on desktops have no avail anymore for colleges or organizations. The employees access their FB accounts flagrantly in their office premises from their SMART ANDRIOD MOBILES which in any case cannot be objected by the companies to cease the usage of it, as its employees private property, same goes with college student’s these days in college premises.   

                        However the general scenario appears glum, as the apart from all these, the factor of wastage of precious time, collegians also get involved in chat altercations and UNFRIEND their fellow young friends which leads to animosity and acrimonious behaviour till the end of their lives in a pernicious way, as if there can’t be friend’s made outside facebook or there is no world for them outside it.  Besides all these, many profile holders, mostly men, invite opposite genders as their muse to meet them for the first time, which is a breeding ground as well as one of the glaring means of rise in crime against women, who later get physically assaulted under the ruse of dating their men for the first time in person out of curiosity. The regrets later come as they realize that the much required background verification was not done, and the genuineness of men were actually feigned to woo them which later turned out to be sheer sham pervertible camouflages.

                        The above all points only prove that barring the advantage of re-uniting with your lost pals, it’s more turning out to be a curse as facebook is utilized into ill perceived ventures. Hence I feel that these social networking websites SHOULD BE BANNED, if the betterment of younger and still born generation is desired. Else this brouhaha will continue to make things in disarray is my personal prognostication.