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"__ likes this","X and 4 other friends commented on Y's post". These are the most common sentences one encounters in today's life. Life's running too fast, we seriously do not have the kind of time to call our friends or go out in the evening for a walk with a friend who lives next door. But there is always time for cropping, editing, retouching and posting numerous pictures, adding videos, using apps, updating status on our very own fb/orkut/twitter accounts.
It seems we are outperforming life in the race against time. These so called "social networking sites" in a way forbid us to socialize privately. Everything that we wanna say to one person is visible to innumerous others. Please do not bring this thought to your mind that I am someone who's a memeber of "I hate fb/orkut" community. For a matter of fact I have an account at practically every such site you can think of. But the more I use them, the more I feel, my life is revolving around logging on to these sites, admiring pics of people, checking the latest posts and shutting the computer down.

I know that this way atleast we are getting connected to people whom we had completely lost track of, but then to think of it, a person with more than a 100 friends on these sites, have, at so many times, nobody to call up when he feels low or joyous.
At best you update your status, and people either "like' it or "leave a comment" and in most cases, leave unnoticed under the pile of hundred other posts from hundred other "friends".
I certainly do not wish to mean that we should quit being a member of such network, i would rather encourage the contrary. All I mean to say that there are things more important in life, sit with your parents, go out for an evening walk, join a hobby class, play with a kid at home, take your mom out for shopping, call up friends, just don't adhere to a superficial network. If you really want to socialize, then do it personally.... don't let the electronic wires take the fun out of it.