PJJ SEMESTER 2 SESI 2011/2012 FIK 3042 :ENGLISH FOR COMUNICATION 1

TOPIC:
The more active people are in online social networking, the more isolated they become in the real social interaction.

GROUP:
B06(A112PJJ)

PREPARED BY:

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SYARANI BINTI MD SARIFF

D20112054865

0136329970

LECTURE E-LEARNING NAME: DR AINON BINTI OMAR (ainon@fbk.upsi.edu.my)

DATE SUBMIT: 01 ARPIL 2012

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The more active people are in online social networking, the more isolated they become in the real social interaction. References

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5. The more active people are in online social networking, the more isolated they become in the real social interaction.

The Internet is already one of the most preferred alternative media instead of the mainstream media. Thus its interactive features and fast flowing updates on information creates the additional requirement in every peoples' life. They read, watch, communicate and even sing through the Internet as none of us can agree more that the Internet now is the part of life. These activities through the Internet have created a massive number of the Internet user growth. It might doesn't matter at all on what the number of the growth means to us but the main concern reflected to this issue is what could actually they do and how the increasing number of the users are connected to this issue. A website known as the Internet World Stats, reports a statistic for the Malaysian that until 31 December 2011 there were at least 61.7% or 17.73 million from its 28.73 million populations were the regular user of the Internet. The online social networking are actually becomes a true growth of the Internet usage. As individual constantly desires to interact each other both in personal and business contacts, the ability of the Internet to deliver this networking capability grows stronger and stronger. In some ways for those that use Facebook only, the general thrust of the article rings true. The social web has evolved way beyond what the mainstream public use though. The potential is only limited by our imagination. If the person stood at the bus stop is forever head down checking their Facebook wall, then maybe they are only comfortable talking to people online and are not normally that sociable. Or perhaps they are connected to thousands and just on the way to meet a chunk of them. Just because they are not talking to the person stood next to them doesnt mean they are not being sociable. Social interaction online is still social interaction. Until October 2011 there are 11.8 million Malaysian using facebook everyday. Thus the Facebook has become the seventh busiest website in the world. But the term isolated in this context might seems lame enough to be agreed as the online social networking is just a new way for getting connected with peoples. These social networking websites are more like the virtual meeting places where people can just chill and hang out with friends. They can discuss on different topics, share information, and

exchange files and pictures. There are some people who use these sites as a platform to meet long lost friend and batch mates, whereas there are others for whom it becomes a bridge to meet their future love. You can either reconnect with your friends and family members or search a dating partner. Some people also use these websites to promote their blogs and services. The professional people uses this as a medium to raise their visibility, get noticed, tell about their company, service, and get more clients. With such a wide usage function one can be also as the main concern especially to youth when it is about their social interaction on everything especially on their future loves as one resulting to what we call as addition. When there is too much online interaction for most purposes then the addiction has become regular but however this might not remain healthy as a normal person which should be getting good real social interactions instead of via the Internet. A strange opinion leads to what could be thought as the reason which is the attraction to online social networking is the lack of restrictions to express or finding whatever one desire to get, which means almost everything. The term everything here is also involving with the misuse or false reason of using the online social networking such as nuisance, criminal and sexual offence. But yet the cyber law has always remained dynamically updated with the range of coverage upon different types of offences. Today they can remain online anywhere with the evolutions on the communication gadgets like the smartphones, tablet PC and with the laptop where the high speed broadband become the mechanism which leads into such a craze especially among the youth. We can't really blaming the evolutions on the infrastructure which it is all about facilitating the growing numbers of the Internet users but rather than looking at the attitude of the users. Some individuals are sociable and some are not. There are more people experiencing new interactions with the social web that there are sociable types becoming isolated like the article suggests. Huge swathes of socially impoverished disconnected people now have a voice and it is down to us to listen and connect.As a human being in real socialises is always a need for us. Getting socialise is also about getting a time for such a purpose. Sometimes in the real situation a person range of socialising might only around the neighbourhood which resulting of spending more time via online and yet viewing the recent updates of their contacts. However getting isolated for this reason is really about depending on the types of friends they had both online or in the real world. Perhaps they could really wonder how genuine that person is if they can only
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see them online. It would be much more beneficial to actually get out in the real world and talk to real people and form a real friendship, than waste time on Facebook especially with those people who lead a pretty boring life, but want to tell you what they are making for dinner. Like seriously who cares! The online social networking is actually a good platform to organise or to meet up with as it is easy and all it requires is a number of clicks rather than having to look up and call or email each individual person. And for this reason it is only rather as a great means of staying in touch with people from now and the past. The isolation terms here might refers to the tendencies of neglecting the real world. Or it is just a new way to replace paper? That person you see at the bus stop staring at his phone or iPad may be me reading the Sinar Harian or some other online publication. Would I be less isolated hidden behind a broadsheet newspaper?

REFERENCES Hampton, K., Goulet,L. and Raine L., (2011). Social networking sites and our lives:How peoples trust, personal relationships, and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social networking sites and other technologies. Retriever March 2012 from http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx

Harris P., (2011). Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US:Twitter and Facebook don't connect people they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academics. Retriever February 2012 from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/22/social-networking-cyberscepticism-twitter