Sometimes Social Media Suck but You Need to Use it Anyway

Assalamualaikum..
How are you ? Have taken your Dinner ?? :D
Well.. now i want to tell you about social media.. yap social media like facebook, twitter, Orkut, My Space, Google Plus, Instagram, Molome and etc etc

While updating the status on one of the social networking site, I realized how much our lives are centered around them. Few years back, I remember how much one of my office friend pestered me to open an account on friendster. I found a lot of long lost friends through that site and I couldnt be more thankful for it.. Writing what we thingking, what we doing, uploading our latest pictures, giving latest information about ourselves is the norm, which also made it quite interesting.

At the same time, people could find other like-minded people through the site and make friends with them. There were communities which anyone could join, depending on their interest. People also get alerts about your birthday... This meant even if who didnt know about your birthday gets a chance to wish you.. I found this quite amusing.. There are a lot of people with whom you dont talk for the whole year.. Rather you never talk to them.. They are in your friend's list since you knew them at some point of time - may be through school, college, friend of friend, work place, hometown, it could be any reason.. 

I also realized that how these sites have become an important part of everyone in today's life.. Whatever is happening in your life, you dont have to tell everyone separately or call them or drop a mail.. Just update your status and the whole world knows about it... And then people may comment and like your status.. Infact that becomes a point of discussion sometimes. You can write what and how are you feeling, where are you going, what did you eat, what do you want to eat, what are you wearing, what do you want to buy.. Just about anything that you can think of.. No questions asked.. 

I am not sure if its good to have these sites.. Sometimes there is too much information floating on the net.. It does makes us vulnerable to identity thefts, with the information being misused.. Like I said, there are pros and cons in it, still we use them including myself. But from now,  I had deleted one of my social media.. not because not interesting anymore its more just made me "Kepo"... you know Kepo ? .. Kepo means want to know about something or someone, sometimes its good but sometimes is bad. One time I found a post that was very disturbing and indirectly hurting me.. unfortunately I can't do nothing about it, so I can just delete my account and hope never to find a post like that again.. 

The point is Sometimes Social Media Suck but You Need to Use it Anyway.. Why suck ? there are so many reasons, such as : It’s more of a place to interact with peers than to engage prospects, It’s full of self-promoters alias media narsis, It’s an easy way to waste a lot of time a.k.a bikin galau taukk.. haha... and last but not least No Privacy.. but also we need these media because many benefits we can take from it.. like i said before : social media help me found a lot of long lost friends, somehow for some people It’s an excellent way to find business partners, to increase knowledge from  page that we follow (any pages), can still keep contac with people in other parts of the world, and for me social media help me well trained my english.. see !! suck isnt it ? but still we need it.. 

Wassalam,