at various places of Tamil Nadu to ensure our cultural games get recognised at the global level. This is what social networking can do to you. For me, social networking and social media has been a world of excitement. With an ever changing web, the social media is getting all the more exciting.
Thank you. Against the motion: (SAMPLE) Good Morning. Respected Jury and my dear friends, I am Amutha of XI-B here to speak against the motion – “Social Networking is good”. For the past three– four years, social networking has been the buzzword that won’t go away.
Social networks like ‘facebook’ and ‘twitter’ have millions of users worldwide. In India, it all probably began with ‘hi5’, then came ‘orkut’, and now we have ‘facebook’, ‘twitter’, ‘Instagram’, etc. No doubt that social networking is an important tool when it comes having the right ‘connections’ in this web-driven world. But then, it’s yet something new, and one must not get over-enthusiastic.
Henry David Thoreau once remarked, “Men have become tool of their tools”. It couldn’t be more apt than it is now, when we talk of social networking. From new teens to young adults to office- going-nearing- , everyone who has access to the Net seems to be on one social networking platform or the other. It is especially the younger ones who are addicted to social networking.
Teenage and early adulthood is the time when we’re growing out of the secure cocoons of our homes, and begin to come into contact with the outside world. At this stage when our young minds should be engaged in dealing with the realities of life and relationships, they are dipping their body and souls into a virtual reality. We want to have more and more friends on our lists. People have claimed to be under stress until they come out each morning with some quirky one-liner/’current status’ to go along with their ids, just to keep up their image of being ‘funny’ or ‘different’.
Like all new technologies, Social Network has also redefined some concepts. It has totally changed the meaning of ‘friendship’.