Facebook’s popularity on the wane

While Facebook has almost become second skin to many youngsters across the globe, an undercurrent it seems is rising in the city, where in youngsters are deciding against keeping their online profiles active. This, decision is being taken by the youngsters based on the realisation that their virtual life is eating into their real life in a big manner.Vinita Kumbhar, is one such youngster who decided to do away with her virtual life. “Nothing much was happening and Facebook was becoming monotonous and boring. Thus, instead of keeping my profile active, I decided to do away with it,” she said. Vinita said that this nonchalance with Facebook, is catching up fast up with her friends. “Around 20 of my friends have decided to do away with their accounts due to the same reason,” she said.Social networking, which always had its strong base amongst the younger generation, who now appear to be disenchanted with it. However, the incident of two young girls being arrested in Palghar, seems to have no effect on these youngsters who are taking on reading or gardening now.Rohan Bankar, another youngster, said that his decision about withdrawing from Facebook, had more to do with his realisation that the social networking site was eating away a lot of his valuable time. “With the advent of easy messaging via Blackberry or Whatsapp, it had become easier for us to remain in touch with each other and thus Facebook lost its relevance for us,” he said. Rohan by his own admission used to spend more than two hours on a daily basis on the popular social networking site and that he realised was a waste of time.“Other than posting pictures, my Facebook account was almost dead, so I decided to just withdraw the same,” he said. Instead of Facebook, Rohan now said that he spends his time reading. “Out of curriculum, reading had increased and this change is good for me,” he said.Software professional Sourabh Kumar also had given up his valued Facebook account for the same reason. “It was just becoming a narcissist activity for me and I decided to leave it all,” he said.