BEWARE!

Do you have networking sites? How did it affect you? Do you enjoy using it? Do you get benefits from using it? Have you established new relationships through it? Have you felt violated by some of the programs and applications?

Online networking sites can be helpful or otherwise. You get to meet people from all over the world and establish friendship, share ideas, get educated by their cultures. You learn from them how real life works aside from all the lifestyle living shows we see on tv. Here, you actually hear it straight from them, on a personal level and in a more conversational manner. It's interactive cause you exchange your opinions and don't just take in whatever is laid before you.

The internet is the fastest way to connect people in real time. Who would need to wait for a day, a week, a month or year to receive a reply from someone across the planet? Gone are the days when people sit and stare blankly into space waiting for a letter, a response. Now you only have to do some clicks and tada! the person you are talking with can be seen live and animatedly. Communication, made easy.

But wait there's more.

People used to hire detectives or investigators to search for someone. Now, there are a thousand search engines you can use to track people you've lost in touch with, like friends, families, or even enemies. Criminals get busted through the helping and friendly use of the net. Well, it's just sad for those criminals who have their infos posted in their accounts for the world to see.

I have also heard a lot of stories about how people end up in marriage with someone they met online. It may sound ludicrous and absurd, others might think its informal and impossible, but for others, it's a match made in the internet. Others believe that their soulmate is somewhere halfway across the world, and that the cyberspace is where they can only meet. For some, looking for someone in the internet is a desperate resolution to their lifelong quest for love. There are also those who think that having a relationship and marrying a western-bred person is the answer to alleviate them from their personal financial problems and improve their lives.

On the downside, however, some are taken advantage of through the internet. Well I could consider myself witness to this and I could give testament to this case. Well, I was not gravely victimized, but in some ways some of my rights were violated. Not that I already did some strip shows or what. Come to think of it, there are actually those who would give in to the demands of someone they're talking with. When they're asked to "put on a show", others, without any hesitations just take their clothes off, and well the events could get worse after that.

Privacy. It is something that is robbed off of you once you agree and voluntarily join on networking sites without careful thinking. It's really good to be completely and totally honest about the information you key in to the required areas to complete your request to join, however, it is advisable to just keep some important and private information about yourself that are sometimes very unnecessary for people to know. For example, you just don't put your exact address, your contact numbers and for the "unforgivably" stupidity, your bank account numbers. Once you join the virtual world, you know you have lost your entire privacy. Don't get shocked when some random strangers suddenly details you some information you didn't even give out. They have some kind of strategies or systems they use to extract your precious information. Just BEWARE.