Facetime Vs Facebook

Social media sites, chat online sites, in general have taken the world by storm and have been a wonderful addition to our life and lifestyle. I appreciate the possibility to stay in touch and share the news, pictures, videos and to have a less expensive alternative to communicate more freely and regularly with friends, relatives, long distance lovers, etc. But, with every new invention there are some definite set backs through overuse by spending too much time or having a false balance in your lifestyle. It can cause irreparable damage, So Beware! 


   While it is a great tool that we can use to keep in touch with our distant loved ones, make new friends, share ideas, it could be the very thing that is robbing of us of one of the most important things that we have and also most valuable to those around us- OUR TIME


  I have personally witnessed many a stories of how social media has been the cause of break-ups of couples and families due to it coming between the people involved. People have lost presence in the real world due to their over-presence in the virtual world. Some also try to find their soul-mates online leaving behind their prior commitments.
  
  Then. there is also a debate over putting most of your personal stuff on social world. Life is too short to allow your relations to downgrade for a cause like this. Any addiction is a PRISON. I once heard a story of the prison Inmate who passed a way after spending the better part of his life behind the bars that when they went into his cell to collect the few items left behind, there on the wall written hundreds of times were some of the saddest words in the English language, "If only I had, If only I had, If only I had".


  Use your time wisely. Use these wonderful new and great tools of technology, just don't allow them to use you, lest you too may be heard saying, "I only I had............"