Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace allow you to search for and connect with anyone, from a co-worker in a very neighboring cube to the girl who played Emily in your high school production. from “Our Town” thirty years ago. Browsing these sites will make you feel connected to a larger community, but such direct and causal affiliation in an electronic environment can also have its drawbacks. Like Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, social media sites can make it more difficult for us. distinguishing between the meaningful relationships we tend to have in the world and, therefore, the various causal relationships shaped by social media. By focusing most of our time and motivation on these less meaningful relationships, our most important bonds, he fears, may weaken. The immediacy afforded by social media is available to predators as well as as friends. Children are particularly susceptible to the practice of cyberbullying in which perpetrators, anonymously or posing as people their victims trust, terrorize people before their peers. The devastation of these online attacks will leave deep mental scars. In many high-profile cases, victims have even been driven to suicide. The anonymity offered online will bring out dark urges that could instead be repressed. Cyberbullying has become widespread among young people, with them being the 42nd new victim, according to a CBS account from 2010. Social networking sites encourage individuals to be more public about their personal lives. Because intimate details of our lives can be posted so simply, users are likely to bypass the filters they might usually use once they talk about their needs not...... middle of paper .. ....e of the general public sector stop viewing social media in a negative light and use it to their advantage. PRO COMPUTER. Retrieved September 11, 2010 from http://www.itpro.co.uk/619585/public-sector-still-blocking-social-networking-sitesJohnny Levis.2010. Social Networks Throughout the 2000s. Retrieved September 11, 2010 from http://ezinearticles.com/?Social-Networking-Throughout-the-2000s-Decade&id=4304302 Lisa Kimball and Howard Rheingold.2010.How online Social Networks Benefit Organizations. Accessed September 11, 2010. From http://www.rheingold.com/Associates/online Networks.html. Martin, Chuck. Social Media Use and Grades Among College Students: A Study to See the Correlation Between Social Media Use and Grades » Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire. Retrieved August 3, 2010 from http://docs.google.com/viewer?