Don't be too Addicted!

Brian Solis sparkled in his newest blog post The Human Cost of Social Connectivity, which basically points out privacy, time, emotion and fatigue as several human cost of social media.

I heard people complaining about their high exposure of life on social media, and I also heard people warning that be careful of what you put on social media because everyone can potentially see and use it. Privacy is indeed a long existing problem in social media utilization. However, social media is created based on the concept of sharing and interacting. Social media empowerment has no meaning without people using it. Privacy and exposure can be reached to a degree of balance, depending on how the users would like to see it as.

Involvement in social media can definitely lead to distraction and time consuming. Like Brian said in the post: "With one click, we can find ourselves hopelessly lost in a labyrinth of fascinating experiences that have nothing to do with our initial focus." Many companies set to block social media sites access within company Internet to avoid over spent time on social networking by employees during working hours. Actually this is a dilemma, for those companies who use social media as an indispensable tool of communication, it is impossible to block the site internally. Many young adults are so addicted to social media sites, even I suffer from being forced to open pages subconsciously. I was thinking of adding an Internet access controller app from the web browser to limit my time spent on certain sites, but finally I gave up because that would probably make myself even more struggling and suffering.

Brain conducted a survey which reveals that more people than expected are suffering from social media fatigue. Indeed, whether you wander around social media world or work diligently inside, you have to put emotions in it, and fatigue will be "an inevitable product of engagement." Such fatigue may compose a question of why we would like to engage in social media that much with more capitals it costs than actual benefit we obtain. What's more important, social media drives us to a society where we don't know the names of our neighbors, don't value a kiss or hug from family members...this is sad. Definitely we can, stay away from the computer and those fancy sites, embrace our love, friendship and nature, where we must feel a sense of refreshed, relaxed and reborn.

Resource:
Brian Solis, The Human Cost of Social Connectivity, http://www.briansolis.com/2011/09/the-human-cost-of-social-connectivity/