Social Networking?

I always feel uncomfortable when people say that networking is really important. It's like people always try to take advantage of someone else. They want to use other's resources to reach their own intentions/goals.

However, recently, I want to see it in a different way. I try to see it as a half-full glass instead of a half-empty glass. When we are engaged to some activities with other people, may be in communities or may be just hang out with them, we actually don't try to take advantage of other people, but we make ourselves available to help others when they are in need.

Then again, in the spirit of helping others, we need to be careful, don't let bad/insincere people take advantage of ourselves. Just like old proverb says, "Be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves."

At the end, probably don't think too much about it, because for the most of us, actually we enjoy being together with other people. But, if you are an introvert person who doesn't feel really happy when you hang out with others, don't push yourself too much to do networking, different people have different style.