The Impact Of Social Networks On People And Society: Social Networks, Social Fold, Or Spider Web?

Abstract

Social networks have two very clear functions: to facilitate communication and the exchange of information and to favor the creation of communities. Those two functions can help to understand its rapid growth and its pervasiveness in people's lives. However, this phenomenon can be understood as an indirect consequence of living in a society of emptiness, profoundly unhappy despite the wide range of happiness based on consumption. And that leads us to explore the complexity of the problem and the damage that these networks are causing in society. Social networks are likely to have a two-faced face, heroes and villains at the same time. A first approximation tells us that they serve to communicate and create communities; but delving a little deeper, perhaps its function is to pretend that the emptiness and unhappiness of people is filled through purchases and gossip. The risk of imbecilization of the population or its transformation into a spider's web that traps all of us in a covert dictatorship, 1984 that does not provide more happiness than Huxley's Brave New World. However, it is convenient to maintain the hope that we will not reach such negative situations. Possibly we will stop again on the verge of pressing the red button of our self-destruction. 1984 that provides no more happiness than Huxley's Brave New World. However, it is convenient to maintain the hope that we will not reach such negative situations. Possibly we will stop again on the verge of pressing the red button of our self-destruction. 1984 that provides no more happiness than Huxley's Brave New World. However, it is convenient to maintain the hope that we will not reach such negative situations. Possibly we will stop again on the verge of pressing the red button of our self-destruction.