Young generation these days are more interested in reality shows which in reality are fakeeee....intersted in joining social networking and dating sites which are also fake as how can you make him or her his best friend or life partner with whom you have not even spent few hours...amazing.
This topic is not written by me but i found this in sakaal times written few days back and i liked it...

The frenzied activity on social networks got me into thinking about the reasons for being associated with them. The most common answer I got is “to keep in touch with friends”. Of course, we may kick-start with the people we know, but soon go on to accepting and sending invitations to people lesser known. The next step is, hesitatingly or unhesitatingly, accepting invitations from even total strangers who are in our friends' and our friends' friends' lists. At first, we feel good that we have made a new friend, but it doesn't take long to realise that we are only being added to enhance someone's list. We then find ourselves in the race for building up long impressive lists of friends. But the fact is we communicate with only a few of the many whose names appear in our lists. Mostly, we remain silent spectators to the interactions that take place in our circle.

The public social networks, microblogging platforms, instant messaging platforms, blogs, discussion boards and forums, social bookmarking and tagging are all used by the present generation to keep in touch with friends. It has become such an important part of the daily schedule of many that more and more people are accessing social network sites via mobile browsers.

We find that like many other concepts, the meaning of friend and friendship is rapidly changing in today's world. Chatting or exchanging thoughts, information or simple salutations through the various platforms and networks even if we live in close proximity to each other is common. Strangely though, we have very few words to exchange in this messaging world - sending emoticons and smileys, which save us from having to think and juggle with words, work well here. Spending time and energy to write mails about the places we have recently visited or the parties we have attended is not the in thing; all we do now is just upload photographs... that's enough for all to know want we want them to know about us!

On the other hand, chatting for hours with those we have not seen nor met, pouring out our hearts and coming close in no time has become very common. Getting into relationships online is easier and so is the getting out part. Chatting, sending teddies and hugs to one anther fizzle out rather too quickly. Broken hearts are not so broken anymore; and even if they are, they don't stay so for too long; soon we are ready to get into yet another relationship. After all, with the strong database of these social networks there is no dearth of hands stretching for new relationships!

We are deviating from the meaning of making friends and building relationships in the rush to add a number in our list on a social network. All this is just a small part of relying so much on information technology!