¿Social or Antisocial Networks?

Who doubts the power and influence of social networks, from a simple hobby and means of entertainment to become a reflection of today's society it is simply an outsider, an ex-con of the new era of communications, 2.0 Homo antagonist.

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, as the two largest and busiest, good image and how to manage them superfluous is the general trend of the user. Hundreds of friends are everywhere similar to the look "cool" your photos and comments, but let's be honest and think about this further, how many of those hundreds of "friends" are really your friends? From my point of view, that social networks have brought is an urgent need to rethink the concept of friend, who certainly very different from the treatment given comradely friendship immersed in a well-founded, with roots. Because we must be clear, not because we click the button "like", "follow" or send a "become a friend invitation", means that person has become the elite group who call them friends, at least in the work offline real world. Some even narrow your perception and classify potential friends simply because of how well they look at your avatar. Please!

But out of all this superficiality, the important thing lies not within the virtual world or social networks that we use, but the consequences they bring in interpersonal relationships, in everyday living within our work and family environments. Each time the communication becomes easier, shorter, lack of reflection and often senseless. We played the themes for "the border" by custom to pass in seconds from one topic to another, the speed with which passes the information on the walls, timelines or blogs ... we live in an era of communication and lost the ability to express and retention analysis. We adopted a priori easy topics, we make our commitment, copy-paste a resource becomes more comfortable.

Eduardo Collado suggests in his blog, the World Donette, the perfect world and describes it as "... a place where we all have hundreds of friends who came from everywhere, where what we say you are concerned about all these people, where there is a conversation a sense of sharing and not so much the concept primase online reputation .... "

I am convinced that it is vital to keep a balance between what is done online in relation to offline. There is a thin line between how we see and say in social networks, and our real self. Imagine a group of friends in a bar, talking to 140 characters, to extend the conversation should be written in a post-it note and stick it in the wall place, and to tell them how you did on your summer trip must make a presentation photos. If they do not interrupt you in your "talk" with a interestign hashtag that all turn their attention to some fun.

Technology is a tool, a modus operandi, not a modus vivendi. Make the most, squeeze all applications that make you a better professional. Consult and learn what makes you a better person. Contact people who are far and catch so share your life in text and image when you can not do face to face. But be smart enough to leave aside the technology to touch, smell, feel, see the wonder that is human contact.

This is my today reflection. I share it with you while you are immersed in this virtual world, but inevitably and with no excuse I'll be waiting in the Outernet, where the warm wind is what hits the face and not the coldness of the matrix.

@RodMndz