Why I don't like and don't use

social networks.

So, nowadays we have a lot of social networks, and everyone says that this is so easy to use, so comfortable and so on. That we all need to have accounts on facebook or g+. So it goes.

I want us to analyze what social networks gives to us, and what they take from us, and then to think a little. You can agree or disagree of course, this is Your choice.

Okay, let us start.

Advantages of using social networks (declared):

• Simple contact with your friends.
• Easy way to find a people you know.
• You know what's going on with people you care about.
• All in one place - you have all information you want to have in one app.

What have I against it?

* First of all I want to say that real friends are not depend on permanent contact. So if you want contact them, e-mail or phone are good enough.

* Secondly, if you want to have rare contact with people which aren't your close friends, and you last their contacts - you may find it the way people did it earlier - by asking another person about it.

* I'm totally agree that it's easier to do through social network, as well as find another people you know, but haven't seen for a time.

* But I do not agree that you need to know all your friends' lives. In reality facebook gave you only information about their lives, but we do not need this information - we need the people. So if you want to know about something in your friends life - talk to him, eyes will tell you more then stupid video on facebook, or status or whatever. And warm hug will tell him more then 500 symbols which you can write to him. And it will be the same time in reality. But in first situation you want be really satisfied as well as your friend, and you will have nothing to keep with you - those situations are so similar, that you have a mix of them. I do for sure.

By this I want to say that those advantages aren't so good and needed as it has been declared. But this is only why I don't like social networks, now lets come to what I see as their disadvantages:

• Degradation. Degradation of language - people are using only short sentences, because they have so much to write about every step of their empty lives. Degradation of thinking - because there is no time for it, and you have so many wise quotes, that you can look clever without working on it. Degradation of relations - people can seed in internet for hours, but they have no one to talk closely, and they have no such skill mostly - all they can talk about are funny videos, or demotivators which everyone has seen. Degradation of the internet - earlier people with will and some skill could have their homepage, and you could of seen lots of them, different and original pages, now you have all in one place, similar, without a possibility to make it better if you would want to.
• Hurrying up everything. Life does not suppose to be fast, and times are not supposed to make it so. We live in now, with people which are in our homes, jobs, schools. And we have no time for them, but we have a time for reading what A feels about B. So we have no time for things we need to make a time, and because of the tons of informations and thoughts we are hurrying up our lives, when we need to say "stop". When I was on social networks I had no time for reading, now I have.
• Dependency. That so interesting, that our ancestors had had so many fights for their freedom, for independence, and now we are so easily give it up for kind of tool. Social network made me depended on them once, when I felt like a fool by checking every 20 minutes whats going on, knowing, that nothing is going on, just usual empty stuff. It like alcohol, but alcohol do not have all information about me and my friends, and have no algorithms about making me depended, as social networks do.
• And there is something else. Those three are enough for me (even last one is enough), but I have a strong feeling that this is wrong. I don't know why, and when I'm saying to myself - it's logical, it's a tool, it's our time - whatever I'm saying this feeling is not getting away.

 I don't want to change Your mind, whoever you are. I just want to write this for myself, because it's so easy to get lost at this unfriendly but shiny closed world.

I wanted it to be more clear, but it isn't that easy to write. Mostly because lot's of things, wise things, moral pillars, have gone, and those arguments against social networks want work nowadays. This is sad. Read books, good ones, old ones. So you'll be able to see how the world has changed.