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Social networking sites are destructive for children: Archbishop
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Monday, 03 August 2009, 23:10 IST |
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Bangalore: In a recent interview published in The Sunday Telegraph, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, blamed social networking sites for impacting the growth and development of the children, which is resulting in obesity, their inability to form proper friendships and is leading to suicides in some cases.
He laid stress over the "dehumanizing" aspect of the internet and the mobile, as the relationships get weaken in the case of less face to face meetings.
"Too much exclusive use of electronic information "dehumanizes" what is a very, very important part of community life and living together. As a society, we are losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that is necessary for living together and building a community," said Archbishop Nichols.
According to him, the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace fail to provide a rounded communication, the children only look for the number of friends they have in their list on these sites. This is pushing the children to view friendship as a commodity.
"They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate," he said. "But friendship is not a commodity. Friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right."
Archbishop's views have come after a 15 year old girl committed suicide after being bullied over on the networking site Bebo.
