1. Some people say that community media platforms like talk-shows, facebook, blog and the like have made life much more social and interactive. But there are others who feel that this development has marred social life.

• How genuine are these two claims in your personal point of view?

The advent of net-based community portals has had great influence on human social life. When it comes to the claim that human life has become more interactive, I tend to believe that it is genuine. However, we cannot ignore the seamy sides of media.

Human social life is established by way of many factors. To mention a few, its interaction, meeting, sharing, exchanging pleasures and pains, getting informed and informing, expressing oneself and appreciating the merits and achievement of others and so goes the list. When we position these instruments of social life with what is happening with community portals, what I think, is that there is much more interaction and activity than it was in the past.

For example; seeing our classmates or schoolmates after long years, meeting our friends who remain spread at different places across borders, finding new friends and interacting with them etc. are much easier today than it was before. And we cannot expect today’s busy people to be meeting each other face to face. Our life does not offer such luxuries. In this context, community media platforms do the job exceptionally well, though mechanically.

All these possibilities notwithstanding, there is a seamy side to it. These personal electronic spaces have become platforms for cyber crimes; many children and youngsters get trapped into net-based asocial contacts and antisocial forces exploit these media for their dirty designs.

In short, if we compare the extent of possibilities these community portals offer with the limited problems they create, many would accept the fact that the first claim - that it has made life more social and interactive - holds much water than the second view.
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