6 Benefits And Risks Involved In Socialising

There is always a need felt to socialise with the people we live. Socializing can be done in two ways either directly in person or through social networking, out of which social networking is an ongoing phenomenon in the youth culture. It is the best and the fastest way to communicate and connect with people staying within and beyond our national boundaries.  

Benefits:

1. Making new friends and increase contacts

Social networking is an excellent platform for real-world friendship. You can make new friends and it also helps to enrich and manage one’s social lives. Making new friends helps to increase your contacts among people of different background and profession.

2. Comfortable to communicate

Socially awkward and shy teens can comfortably communicate, which is less intimidating than meeting face-to-face. This helps them to boost their self-esteem and confidence to learn some social skills.

3. Teens with similar interests can communicate on groups

Teens with similar interest, hobbies and like can communicate through Facebook groups and many others giving them a place to share information on various topics and create enthusiasm among them.

4. Exploring new things

Socialising helps you get yourself out of your cocoon and understand different people, their culture, lifestyles. It also keeps you connected within the online world. 

5. Inexpensive way

Social networking is a hub where people can discuss on various topics freely without bothering about its expense while chatting since it is free of cost.

6. Online presence

Social networking provides a place for individuals to show their presence online by posting their profile pictures and details about them like hobbies, likes, dislikes and their descriptions. You can flaunt about your achievements and create your own status. 

Risks:

1. Online Addiction

One of the major risks in social networking is its addiction. Once you get hook of it it’s hard to get yourself out of it. Most teens spend more than half of their day behind socialising online. It not only wastes a lot of time but also affects one’s health. 

2. Online bullying and harassment

Cyber bulling is one of the biggest problems in social networking, where teens are harassed by their peers. It’s equal to real-life bullying. Some sites do not have privacy settings to post anything online so when people put up their personal details they are misused by online-predators.

3. Less interaction with family and friends

Teens always keep themselves in front of computers and cell phones and totally ignore their family and friends; we get so involved with the online-world that the real world goes missing. 

4. No personal life

We always keep ourselves updated on social networking sites like our pictures, what we are doing, where we are and with whom so there is no privacy left, everything is exposed in front of the world.

5. Bad company

When you socialising you are likely to communicate with many people but not necessary that they may be good, some may provoke you to take up wrong things.

6. Unwanted attractions

Nowadays people use social sites to build up emotional relationship, where they try and communicate with the girl through different means, forcing her to talk and flirting with her.

 Like anything else socialising too has its pros and cons. One can either consider it a waste of time or can consider it a great opportunity to socialise, connect with people and learn and explore more things.