Computer Makes Us More Social : For the Topic

Context : MCA students have two hours a week dedicated for seminar. There are 30 minute talks and 4 minute talks. Following is a summary of a 4 minute talk
Date: 10 - June 2011
Speaker: Priyanka L K

Man is said to be a social being. Social basically refers to ‘being in person’. During ancient times the agents of socialisation were friends, family, peers and other mass media which included postal and telephone services. But in today’s scenario all of us would agree that the interconnection of global computer network allows individuals on the internet to interact with multitudes of people.

I would strong say that computers make us social. Let me brief you on it. In the yesteryears when the computer were not known to the world ,friendship was confined to a small circle, but now we can comprehend the unique feature of internet distinct from that of the traditional socialization tools which paved the way for worldwide friendship.

Even in today’s time constrained world we are able to socialize and still stay in touch with our pals only because of social networking sites.

In the absence of social networking sites be it facebook, orkut, twitter or any other social networking site I am sure most of us wouldn’t have stayed in touch with our friends be it school or pre-university or even degree mates. But today we are in touch only because of the social networking sites.

I personally feel computers transform virtual world into reality. For instance consider video chatting, we can communicate with anyone around the globe virtually and still feel real. We are able to visualize the expressions and thus convey our thoughts better.

From the business perspective, there a number of sites for online business transactions. One such site is the “Linkedin’ which is a corporate networking site comprising of more than 8.5 million people over 130 countries. Here individuals can form partnerships, seek new jobs or venture into new businesses. These sites help us improve our connectivity worldwide.

From the economical point of view even common man can actually use the internet to connect globally.

Thus we can conclude that the increasing use of the internet as a communication tool makes this a potentially strong agent of socialization.