Death Of Socialising

This century has seen the unprecedented rise and rise of social networking.

Take the likes of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and their ilk amongst the millions of others out there in virtual world.

Many businesses, regardless of size have failed to adopt on online virtual presence, much to their own dismay and are now in the process of scrambling to get up to speed in this space.

Individuals are logging in, sharing and connecting with others across the world with no boundaries in the millions.

But what has happened to traditional social skills?

For some reason it seems to me that social skills like being effective communicators, whether it is one-on-one or any other situation, are on the decline in equal, opposite reaction to the online social networking rise.


Let's face it, social networking in the virtual world is here for the long haul and what we must do is to ensure that the 'traditional' social activities do not suffer as a consequence.

Personally, I have met some very witty, smart, intelligent people online. When meeting them face to face however, the illusion that their online persona's give is rapidly pulled apart.

Communication is more than just words, non-verbal communication makes up most ways that our brains handle incoming information.

So lets ensure that the next generation coming up actually knows how to communicate both on a personal level and in a virtual environment. There is no reason that they cannot both co-exist and be beneficial to both parties.

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