Internet – The Drug for Communicating

Can communication exist without taking a dose of the internet, three times a day, morning, noon, and night?  Does communication have its own identity?  Does the internet take over your identity?  Is communicating through the internet becoming an addiction?  Can the internet break hearts, end careers, and create death in its literal sense?  Well, unfortunately all of the above and much more holds true.
Although various websites and social networking sites keep us closer to our ‘so called’ friends, the repercussions are far more severe and detrimental to the society as a whole.  Personal communicating allows you to read the opposite person’s body language, expression, demeanor, etc. but without that your friends are truly virtual, graphically designed objects in oblivion.  In the first instance you don’t get to see, feel, touch, or observe the characteristics of the person on a one on one basis and you are forced to believe the truth as is fed to you.  It robs you and the other individual off his or her true identity.  There is constant pressure to look good on paper, and as human nature dictates, it is easier to lie over the internet than lie to the face.  Trying to keep up with the newly created persona of oneself, there is an overwhelming desire to change the facts and underplay or overplay situations.  This creates a new identity typically the opposite of what the individual truly is or secretly desires to be.  Keeping up with the façade created by this selective communication over the internet, might just make it hard for weaker personalities to move away from this falsity of their life and they may begin to truly believe and live by their newly found avatar.  Nothing fake can last that long and hence the downfall will always be in the offing.  Overall it affects relationships, and does not allow it to grow and mature along its normal path.  However, the benefit of having to develop an alter ego for the sake of communicating over the internet can hugely assist those with timid personalities and those suffering from inferiority complexes, which gives them that initial push to break out of their shell.