Social utility networks can harm moral values

With the advent of the Internet, mobile phones, and of course, improved transportation, the world has become a closely integrated village. In recent times, no other medium has been able to accelerate the process of globalisation faster than social utility networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and the likes.

In July 2010, Facebook boasted of having no less than 500 million users while Twitter and Myspace had 192 million and 66 million users respectively. These figures give credence to the fact that through technology, people in different parts of the world are able to communicate without leaving their locations.

These social networking sites are beginning to affect not only our cultures, but our consciousness as a whole. As a result, sociologists aver that the Internet chat rooms have become the cultural hubs of our time.

The merging of diverse cultures through these social networking sites have allowed both negative and positive elements to filter through society and in reaction to the threats, many conservative countries have resorted to banning the websites. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia banned the use of Facebook, because the site did not conform with the kingdom’s conservative values.
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