Social Networking Sites are the hallmark of our generation. It has become the go-to when we want to find out what our friends, siblings, enemies, acquaintances, love interests, partners, and relatives are up to. It’s also a good way to kill some time.

But the more I think about it, the more I feel that although it’s a good thing to stay connected to everything else in our world, it makes things slightly worse by remaining physically disconnected because it changes the way we hob nob with people. Mashable shares 5 very crucial parts of our lives that social networking sites are slowly destroying.

Dating Scene
After you make out with a guy, do you friend request him? If so, how long do you wait? What about that cute boy in your lecture? Will he think it’s weird that you know his last name? Do you write on his wall? If he doesn’t write back, is he not interested? OMG, he “likes” your status, what does that mean!? With all this virtual interpretation, there’s hardly time for a real date.

Fr-end-ships
When we can keep in touch with our friends via wall-to-walls and see what’s going on in their lives from status updates, it’s easy to forget that weekly phone call or up-to-the-minute conversation. Then when you’re finally together, it seems like you haven’t actually talked in ages. Because you haven’t.

Information Overload
Somewhere along the way, adults mistakenly determined it was okay for them to sign up in a social networking site too. So that status you posted about your 58 second keg stand? Yeah, Grandma saw that. And that wildly inappropriate TFLN your BFF put on your wall because it totally applies to you? Yeah, yoiur aunts and uncles saw that too. And if you “marry” your female bestfriend for laughs on Facebook, get ready, because at the next family dinner you WILL be asked when you decided to become a lesbian.

Work and School
I know I’m not the only one that spends more time Facebook-ingat work while pretending to go through flowcharts, profit pyramids, and PR plans which suddenly take much longer to go through when you’re logged in to check your News Feed after every 10 seconds. Then work starts going downhill when you read someone’s status update or come across photos that you wish you never saw. Cue mental breakdown and tears. In the library. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Your Future
Some organizations have sneaky ways of getting around those privacy settings (if you remember to use them in the first place), and they will stalk you. Turns out those pictures of you funneling beers while getting a piggyback ride from a guy and the “I’m soohungover” status updates don’t go over so well with the big boss man.