I know I won't be the first to touch on this topic, but for some reason I want to say it again: have you noticed that everyone now lives not on earth, but online? I'm not talking about everyone at the same time, but unfortunately, this is the spoon in the barrel of wonderful social network honey.
By the way, the number of people registered in these very social networks has now exceeded a good hundred million. What do we do there? We look at photos, exchange news, read articles, etc. But what of this do we really need?.. If it weren’t for the social network, we would hardly be interested in photos from the birthday of your friend’s second cousin’s friend, but no, we look, reading with pleasure the comments left by strangers.
Now about the opposite. What is much more interesting is that the social network allows us not only to look at others, but also, as they say, to show ourselves, and what, in fact, we show. Looking through the news on VKontakte once again, I notice literally banners hanging online: “I am sad”, “I am lonely” and so on, and of course, everyone understands that such “cries from the heart” are just another teenager’s way of making an impression by putting on a mask of light English spleen. What great-great-great-grandmothers sat for long evenings next to the window, sighing languidly, is within walking distance for today’s teenagers, you just have to go to the computer and type with your finger on the keyboard: “I lack warmth”. There is literally a fashion for all kinds of touching and sad statuses and quotes on the Internet. It is noteworthy that the more sentimental lines a person publishes on his page, the more carefree and cheerful he actually is. It is just so fashionable, so cool.
But there are also real tragedies in the virtual space. Frankly, the “scream of silent melancholy” of a fourteen-year-old lady about all men, pardon me, being representatives of agricultural fauna, does not produce the same effect as daily posts about happiness, joy and love of those who in real life communicate with a cat and a mouse, and even then a computer one.
And after reading the newly added news, you understand that, in fact, the world of social networks is much grayer and more monotonous than they try to make us believe. And it is divided into those who are lonely bored by the window, telling all their 1052 close friends about it, those who are madly happy alone with their “window to the world of the Internet”, and my favorites (this is, perhaps, a new class of personalities-individuals in social networks after “cuties” and “vanillas”, which have already become swear words), the so-called low-calorie cynics-athletes without bad habits (better, of course, than alcohol propaganda, but, like any mass insanity, it is unlikely to lead to anything good).
In conclusion, there will be no slogans like “Live in the present!”, “Life is more interesting than we think!” or “Save the polar bears!” It’s just that I feel uneasy at the thought that I increasingly see children from 7 to 12 online, rather than on the street.
