Originally posted by Aint_mad_atcha I agree, the younger people are very bad socially these days. I mean the people about 18 and under. And you can tell just by watching tehm on the streets, they have a hard time interacting with humans. Most of them are burried on their Ipod, while out and about, and when they are home, they bury themselves on social networsks. As for facebook, I have one that's me with my real name and everything, and its for friends and family. I have one however, which is for my hobbies, online friends and such. It works great, I would recomment doing that for everyone.

Originally Posted by MarkWaldorf (Post 1755343)

I saw this article [Article Link] on Yahoo! News earlier and it reminded me of this debate I saw on 'The Big Question' show last week. They were debating 'is the screen generation missing out on real life?' - which is basically the younger generation and our obsession social networking sites. Experts and teachers on the panel were arguing that spending our time on these websites takes away our social skills, encourages us to create 'fake personas' and can corrupt our English skills due to the huge amount of 'internet lingo' we use online. Then again, there were people saying that these sites can help us gain confidence and meet new people, which a lonely person who would visit this website for couldn't do in real life.

So what are your views on social networking websites and this generation? Is it heathy to be obsessed with Facebook or any others? Should teenagers/young adults be spending so much of their time on them and missing out on real life?