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Facebook and MySpace generation 'cannot form relationships'
A generation growing up with social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unable to form lasting relationships and are at increased risk of behaving impulsively, an expert has warned Teenagers who were born in 1990 or later have never known a world where you can't surf online and could have a distorted view of the world and their own identity because of that, the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists heard. Dr Himanshu Tyagi, a psychiatrist at West London Mental Health Trust, said social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have fostered the idea that relationships and friendships can be formed and destroyed quickly and easily. He said: "This is the age group involved with the Bridgend suicides and what many of these young people had in common was their use of internet to communicate. It's a world where everything moves fast and changes all the time, where relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse, where you can delete your profile if you don't like it and swap an unacceptable identity in the blink of an eye for one that is more acceptable. "People used to the quick pace of online social networking may soon find the real world boring and unstimulating, potentially leading to more extreme behaviour to get that sense." He said teenagers who socialise online put less value on their "real world" selves which puts them at risk of impulsive and even suicidal behaviour. They may be less able to form relationships as they do not learn the physical clues involved with communication including body language, tone of voice and facial expressions. "If you can't see the person's expression or body language or hear the subtle changes in their voice, it shapes your perceptions of the interaction differently," Dr Tyagi said. "The new generation raised alongside internet is attaching an entirely different meaning to friendship and relations, something we are largely failing to notice. "This is definitely a line of reasoning that warrants more investigation and research, " he said. But there are also benefits including lack of discrimination where wealth, race and gender were less meaningful and a loss of geographical boundaries. He said: "No one is a pariah on the net, it works great in flattening the hierarchies of the real world." He warned the meeting that there was a massive generation gap amongst current psychiatrists and young patients around the internet related issues. A survey of International psychiatrists conducted by him at a recent psychiatric conference in US showed that the vast majority of psychiatrists worldwide were unaware of the full magnitude of impact of online world on the younger generation. |
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