The people of the future generations might be unable to distinguish between meaningful. Your attention span will also shorten as time goes by if you spend too much time being on the internet, especially in social networking sites as there is are too many information to consume that we rarely spend any time exploring any of it in great detail.

Being on social networking sites also cause distraction and harm productivity as when we do our work and be on the Internet at the same time, it’s hard to stay focused as it will seduce you into wasting time as they are a constant stream of news and view from people who you want to listen and pay attention to. The games online also tempt you into playing for many hours when you only intend to play for about five minutes, hence you will waste your time and produce nothing, hence affecting your level of productivity.

Over-sharing and loss of privacy are also the causes of using social networking sites. For example, Facebook allos us to list our full name and birthday, reveal who our family members are, share our work history, our hoobies and interest, what we like and dislike and even who we are in a relationship with. But we are doing so without any kind of prodding or pushing, so it means that we are giving away our personal information willingly.