Social Network: A Virtual Friend or Real Enermy

More and more people around the globe are using social networks and it becomes very popular in this generation. According to online dictionary, social networks are networks of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts ("Dictionary.com," 2012). By the time it becomes more and more popular, many arguments arouse over social networks, whether it is virtual friend or real enemy. For the word “virtual friend” means someone who is in fact does well to you and for “real enemy” means a true person who hates you and wants to harm you ("Dictionary.com," 2012). In other word to the argument, a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts does well to you or it is just harms you. In my opinion, social networks are virtual friend due to three main reasons that it facilitates my life: share and receive information, advertising, and connecting with other people.

             There are many things happening around the world everyday and a lot of people around the globe can receive the information immediately through social networks. In this way, people on social networks are likely to share the information that they got to their friends and other people around the globe. The majority of people on social networks can expose to the information quickly as a lot of people on social networks are like to share information or any interesting events every day on social networks. From this point, we can assume that social networks also serve as a media to spread information.

I always look at the advertising on social network websites as I find it is very interesting rather than on television or other advertising Medias. I also have mentioned above that some people are very busy with their works and they do not want to spend their time with shopping at all, so social networks has helped them a lot since there are a lot of small businesses advertise their products or services on social networks. Many people are shopping through social networks these days and they can save a lot of time by doing these since many small businesses now make most of the products or services available online which includes clothing, furniture, stationary, and many other stuffs. What is more interesting about social network is that, people or customers can buy stuffs or make their payment directly through the social networks as well. Not only do social networks facilitate customers for their shopping, it also allows many small businesses to get into the market quickly. In this respect, many small businesses are beneficial from social networks since they can advertise their products or services for free of charge and coincidently, they can have millions of customers known their businesses in a very short time. As a result, social networks  really help a lot in shopping and advertising for both customers and businesses.

There are millions of people on social networks nowadays such as on face book and twitter, and people can get to know each other very easily through these social networks. Similarly, there are many people in our generation who got more than one thousand friends, and this is because of social networks which allow people to make new friends much easier than the past. In the past, people would know each other when they meet outside only and they seem to not have much contact with many other people far away from them at all, whereas, a lot of people today are vice versa. We could see the potential of social networks which can make people to be more socialized than in the past.  Personally, I also got a couple thousand of friends through social networks and I would not get that much of friends without social networks. Hence, social networks really help a lot people in making new friends. Furthermore, people are really busy nowadays and they do not have much time to keep in touch with their friends or other personal contacts outside at all. Social networks have worked best to solve this problem for many people since people can communicate through social networks easily without spending a lot of time going out together or meet around and they still can communicate with each other through online. Communicate through online also can save more time and spend less money than meeting outside. As a consequent, thanks to social networks that it can maintain people’s relationship with one to another with little less time and money in order to avoid loneliness which could cause a lot of problems to one people or losing contact with our old friends or personal contact .

In conclusion, social networks become more and more popular internationally and it is growing days by days. Social networks are virtual friend rather than real enemy because it helps to connect people and help people to make new friends much easier than before, provides many business opportunities for many small businesses, and spread information around the globe. There will be some people who encounter about the points that I have made for social networks; thus, you should make sure by yourself that social networks do good to you or it is just harm you and other people.