Do Social Networks encourage Unsocial behaviour?

In our opinion, the short answer is a resounding, YES!

Gone are the days when if you wanted to talk to someone, be it friend, or family, or anyone else, you would have only two choices... Pick up the house phone and give them a call, OR (God forbid) you would have to go and visit them personally and make the human effort to be nice and civil.

These days it is far too conveniant to just pick up your mobile phone, while sitting on the couch at night, open up your FaceBook, or Bebo, or Twitter application and sit there for hours, having typed only one message in to it and have it posted on your status, then sit there like a vegetable waiting on a reply from some co-worker you knew about eight years ago, only to say "Lol", or have your GrandMother's neighbour actually post something saying, "aaw, that's lovely!"

Meanwhile your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife is sitting on the couch right next to you, doing the exact same thing, and all the while the television is on in the background with a reality TV Show on the screen (something like "My Best Friend Wants to Marry My Dog", or , "Dancing In The Jungle With My Teacher"... something pitiful like that). All the time that you are trying to gain internet popularity with your former associates, and ex-girlfriends sisters, and co-workers that you dislike, you could easily be having a proper conversation, a meaningful one at that, with someone who actually matters to you.

I think the government should take a new direction when trying to make Britain healthier, by instead of banning smoking ( which I am totally for, by the way), and reducing alcohol price cuts (which I am totally against by the way), they should put a ban on social networking, or at least a limit to how much time people are allowed to spend on these sites a day. Perhaps then people would actually get off their backsides and do something constuctive?!

I, myself have written a song about the unsocial ways of social networking, because I have been so riled up in the past over how tedious and boring it can be. One of my pet hates involving FaceBook these days, is people liking comments that someone they used to know posted on a friends activity which was liking a picture on a page with ridiculous photo's of babies swearing at each other in a joking manner to make a comedy sketch....REALLY?!! Who cares?!

Another irritation of mine, are people who play games on FaceBook. That's why we have Playstations,X-Boxes, PC's, even mobile phones these days, not to mention Wii-U or Wii's, DS handhelds, PSVitas, etc, etc. If for whatever reason you can't afford any of these then fine, but don't keep sending me a request to play Bingo Basher, or Candy Calamity, or FARMVILLE....THEE single most annoying game EVER invented. (I may of course be wrong having yet to play any of the FaceBook games and various other apps in iOS). However, I would just like to state (for the record) that I am not totally against Social Networking. It CAN be a useful tool, if for example you have relatives or friends who have moved to the opposite side of the World, Australia in my case, and a telephone call might not always be an affordable option. Social Networks, and in particular Skype are very handy in those kind of situations, enabling folk to interact with each other from thousands of miles apart and all the while being able to physically see each other. That, my fellow Bloggers, is actual progress and proper use of the internet, and how Social Networking should be.