Social Networking

Social Networking has been around for a while and it's one of the most popular thing that people are involved with today. I am sure that most of the people that you meet are involved with social media or has something to do with it past or present (unless you are ancient or one of those who doesn't enjoy using technologies and stuff). I've probably started using when I was very young. I believe I start off with using AIM (AOL Instant Messaging) when I was probably in elementary school. It was one of the most popular thing back then (it kind of slowly died out). Lots of people used it back then and now everyone uses Facebook Message, Text Messaging, and many other different ways to communicate and socialize. MySpace and Xanga were also very popular back then and it was one of those things where people socialize through the internet. You can connect with your friends that you haven't seen in a while or friends from back then. 

People also use social networking to do business and to make their businesses known and popular. Some companies can even do business over the internet so this way business can be easier for everyone. Companies and other corporates also use social networking to connect with others an it is also a way they market their company. There are a lot of benefits to social networking such as making things easier, connecting with people from the past and present, easier way to communicate, etc. Like any other good things that are good in this society there is also a "dark side" to everything. Of course there is a dark side to social networking, there can be stalkers on social network, rapist, child molesters, and everything. Just like every other social networking sites such as Facebook and stuff, everything you post something up or upload a picture or use personal information to sign up for it, after you enter all these information it no longer belongs to you. Facebook or any other social networking website owns it and they can do whatever they want with it. In the article by Greenfeild, R "Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private," even the person that owns Facebook doesn't have his family photos private because the public basically owns it. A few years ago there were also cases on the the MySpace Killer and many other cases that is involved with social networks.

I believe that social networking and technologies are just gonna get bigger and bigger in this society. Sooner or later there wouldn't be any jobs left or some people because there would be machines or robots being used to work and then there wouldn't be a lot of jobs left for employees. There was an article about companies that use social networking to recruit people instead of doing interviews in person and stuff. "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" by Frank Langfitt, they use a website called LinkedIn, its basically social networking for professional and business use. Social Networking has to be one the most popular and most rapid growth in history.


1) Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private,” The Atlantic Wire, Greenfield, R. December 26, 2012 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/facebook-privacy-so-confusing-even-zuckerberg-family-photo-isnt-private/60313/

2) Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf