Get off Facebook and get a life

Not long time ago a friend of mine decided to do this. He said goodbye to his FB friends in order to enjoy more free time. Finally, he escaped ! and respectable voices from the scientific world back his decision. For instance, Dr. Aric Sigman, psychologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine argues in a recent study that a high level of devotion to virtual networks can have negative consequences on the individual's mental performance. In her study Baroness Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, says that social networking sites could be driving the human brain into an infant-like state because of the instant feedback and impersonal communication. Thus, skills like recognizing and understanding body language or sympathizing have little chances for development. On the other hand, the desire of belonging and membership proved by users joining groups with which they have sometimes little in common or adding the friends of friends is an example of an increasing social feeling of loneliness. Contrary to one may think a big list of friends mean less time to actually pay attention to what they are doing. I would argue that online virtual networks, namely FB will soon reach a saturation stage when its users will express the need for a break.