The Lonely Billion: Facebook’s Negative Effect on your Real Friends and Privacy

Everyone’s connected and all the people you know are probably into the Social Media just like you. Among the Social Networking Sites, the most popular and probably the most convenient and useful is Facebook. Since the introduction of Facebook, the entire scenario has changed – online presence, other social networking sites, and even the concept of friendship – everything was not left unchanged. Today, in this highly digitalized world, it is almost impossible to imagine our existence without Facebook.

Imagine the world sans Facebook. No more status messages. No more private messages to selected friends. No more likes. No more comments. No more sharing of photos and videos. No more tagging. No more games. No more notes. No more virtual friends. Life will not be the same again.

Many people, especially the younger ones are spending hours and hours of their time each day just to update their status message. Many of the Facebook users even make it a point to change their status several times within a day. They are also using their best judgment in selecting the best photograph that is worthy enough to serve as your profile or display picture. And it takes a lot of effort on the part of Facebook users to upload the latest photographs from a certain party or gathering. In addition, tagging friends in the photos takes a lot of effort as well.