Social networking is a concept that has introduced since the beginning of the humankind. Ever since humans began to colonize the earth, they have built, and preserving social ties. Through the course of time, social interactions have become more complex. Interactions and communications have grown and expanded through over the world with different ways. One of the most innovative is the internet. The computational neuroscientist, Terrence J. Sejnowsky (2016) stated Internet as an extension of human brain which has omnivorous appetite for information and social interaction. Over a decade, the internet has made a possibility for persons to keep in touch no matter whenever and wherever they may be in this earth. This endless interaction provides opportunities to change the way of human life and moreover the world.
In recent year, it is not too grandiose to say that popular social networking sites have conquered almost all the population of human being around the world. Men, women, white, blacks, young and even old man are more likely spending their time to online. According to online statistics portal (Statista: 2016) there are 21 most visited social networking sites including in Smartphone apps. The statistics showed Facebook.com as the most visited site to surpass 1.5 billion monthly active users, and WhatsApp standing at the second rank with 1 billion users. Due to a constant presence in the lives of their users, social networks have a decidedly strong social impact.
Despite that social networking have penetrated in all the aspect of human life, sparse literature explains the behavior aspect in depth about the context of interaction through internet. Since talking about the virtual world, it is not only using oral in online interaction but normally the users express their existence with written form, where people just generally share or post with their written typing on keyboard. Unlike the oral, the written communication has more complexity to investigate. This condition continues to receive attention from expert. It happened because not even a few cases that arise because of the intimacy between the users and social networking sites involved their written language.
The social networking have received a lot of media attention in the past few years, notably in 2008 the terrorist in Mumbai used twitter as a medium of information. But in another condition the twitter users helped some victims to get some blood donors by writing pleas and spread them at their timeline.
However misinformation and some rumors can rapidly spread on social media particularly with a simple writing, sometimes user of social networking judges the writing as an offensive statement but sometimes comes with normal respond depending on the readers. Fundamentally, the social networking is created to connect people in order to get interaction in their community and there are various behaviors to have rooted in the social networking since its expansion. Furthermore to investigate these behaviors, it has to be involving the intimacy between the user and the social networking sites, by means of that condition it is enormously possible that people who are in social interaction can influence one another (Sharad cited in Centola, 2013:83).
Based on the circumstance, the intent of this investigation is to examine, do social interaction in social networking sites separate people and truncate their relationships? And are there benefits related with being connected to other individual or community in social networking?
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