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Socially Struck by Social Sites ?! Or is it Communication Counterfeit?!

When using a social network, you name it Facebook (fb), Twitter, Bebo, or the very first one Myspace, people are automatically transmitted, self centred to a parallel dimension where emotions, attitudes, points of view and social activities are exchanged in order to accomplish popularity or interest in other beings. Nowadays one self is not part of what is happening around him if he does not participate to blogging, networking, emailing and other such things. Therefore the human being feels important and independent, capable of making decisions on its own, estimating whether his life is to be considered "fun" or even "interesting" to others. Mohandas Gandhi quoted that Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. So to speak we understand how a human being feels reassured, protected by acting like every body else around him, in his same culture, sorrounding. 

Social networks nowadays are an institution, a way of thinking, why not an emotional indicator?

When one self is sad, happy, angry at someone, married, divorced, engaged etc. he communicates it on fb, he uploads it on his smart phone via twitter and them new social media relators. Why not make it public to the whole world so that every person considered your friend can actually understand and come to the rescue. No!! People want attention; thay are not satisfied with all the things surrounding them and tend to find an anchor in there "remedies" in order to have compassion and why not pity from people close to them. Call it a secret diary where the lie lies in the word secret, since every sillable is made popular amongst your 400 or more friends of life. Its a way to start conversation, a way of wasting time common to all of us that attracts more and more people becoming a big society, planet. The appropriate word is sharing, whereas twitting, chatting and them other sinonims all contribute to social attitudes. Latins used to say cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. But today its all about I'm social therefore I am. I have a life I want to share with mates, family, colleagues therefore I deserve a prize and an applause because, yes, I have friends who want to know about what I'm on about. 

Facebook's catch phrase if you wish is "Connect and share with friends". Immediately you connect and everything you do is shared amongst peers. Moreover when something happens, is read on fb, twitter and the rest, people feel something in response. They might feel sad if someone they knew dies, they might smile if a friend gets engaged with their long time lover, they might burst into tears if their relationship status turns into single from married it was. 
Once it was alla bout letters and waiting a few weeks for the receiver's response. Now you take out your smart-phone, you press from 3 to four icons and there you go, fresh news on your wall, status, of where you're at, what you thinking, hoping, sensing and people just know every step you gonna take and why.

"Here's to the profound religious experience that comes from doing a job well and being grossly underpaid." - The Big Kahuna

Usually the "so called" work experience situation  flashes into one's life after university, after its acknowledgement of desired information, lifetime dreams. Planning, reading, university open-days start to create that sense of wish-fulfillment enabling to feel comfortable when tackling a desired goal from scratch. Advice coming from friends and parents shapes what usually we prefer, from mathematics in high school to drawing in art lessons directing intentions into something more concrete.

Enrichment of equations, never ending exams, quotes, management of stress and hangover awakenings become everyday routine for first, second and third year. After the graduation cap throwing tradition every student feels a little less stressed and a little less heavy having accomplished a more or less satisfactory grade for some and a very well done grade for others.

When job hunting starts, after going back home or for others simply staying in the city chosen for university, the ones that thought about how easy it would have been after committment and complete devotion to books and library rooms, find themselves a little too uncertain of the previous sensation. No jobs, no vacancies, no opportunities; by all means you revised all those hours spent revising in halls was wasted. Some completely fortunate individuals just work for parents and find the job of their life living happily ever after. Some other, less lucky and maybe not in the right place at the right moment do not.

Websites and job blogs for head hunters and all just seem all these people come across everyday. Not to be pessimist but just a little down to earth son, you should have chosen ingeneering or maybe dentistry in order to have all the desired money for a car and a nice house.
Then again one just gives up and after maybe 8-10 months of job hunting in the big agencies decides to give a try to that work experience that pays alright and fot the time being settle down occasionally job hunting until regret and that time-wasting sensation come to mind. Realising that people, colleagues and life around you might be happy even if dreams are not being fulfilled just settles oneself down just for the sake of dreaming a good position in that particular sector. Problems start when you also loose that position you fought for the past year, just to let you know you're a good member of staff but we do not need such a valid person anymore.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live - Merchant of Venice - W. Shakespeare