Throughout history, humans have wanted to socialize with each other on a regular basis. In history books we can find drawings of cavemen sitting around a fire, and we can presume that they are trying to stay warm and most likely socialize too. During the Middle Ages, Romans had public baths where they went to bathe and socialize. In the modern age of information and technology, people still socialize; However, over the past ten years, our ways of socializing have changed. Some of them have changed for the better, others for the worse. Social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook have significantly revolutionized the way we socialize as humans. These websites offer many ways to virtually connect with the world around us. However, behind the glamor of technology lie thousands of ways to invade our privacy and threaten our professional and personal security. If we use social networking sites without moderation, we could put so much information on the Internet that it could be used to destroy our lives: virtually and in reality. The biggest problem with social networking sites is that they waste a lot of our time. Most successful people can agree that social media is largely a waste of quality time if people use it all day. When people socialize through social networking sites, they tend to socialize less in real life. This replacement of real life with virtual reality is not healthy for humans. We are becoming a less social people who live more in a virtual reality. Sitting in front of a computer for hours is not very healthy in many ways. When we use social networking sites, we sit in front of computers even more when we are at home, or when we are away from home, we spend a lot...... middle of paper .... ...gov /about us/investigate/counterintelligence/internet-social-networking-risksFederal Trade Commission. (1998, January 1). COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy Protection. COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy Protection. Accessed April 20, 2014 from http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), (2011). Socialize safely: use social networking services. Retrieved from http://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/safe_social_networking.pdfUniversity of the Pacific. (nd). Dangers and benefits of online social networks. Retrieved from http://www.pacific.edu/Campus-Life/Safety-and-Conduct/Safety-and-Security/Online-Social-Networking-Dangers-and-Benefits-.htmlWhite, F. and Billings, S. . (2014). The well-constructed argument: A guide and a reader. (Fifth edition ed., (pp. 593-599). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.