Blog Social Networking
Social networking allows us to manage and communicate with our
contacts in a totally new way and access information as never before.
Social networking can help people to find their jobs in term
of finding an employer or to start your own business by helping you find
partners. The bigger site for professional social networking is LinkedIn. Your page
on this site represents your resume with past experience and professional skills
and it is open to everyone. You can easily find people from your aria of
business with the particular occupation. You can find employer or employer can
find you.
Another growing phone application is Instagram. It is less
professional and more for personal use, however, a lot of businesses and
start-ups have already made a lot of profits through promotion and advertising
on Instagram. Some people also earns money by cratering their own photo and
video blogs via this application.
One more, huge social network, Facebook has generated into
making profit for everyone. Everybody can make their own public page and
promote it. You can also connect it to your Instagram page and online store (if
you have one) to make cross promotion. Moreover, Facebook recently added a new function
“sell" to its application, where you can buy or sell anything you want to
people who are located around you.
There is a “black side” of social networking as a fault of
any other new technology. Randi Zuckerberg was a good example how easily you
can get into your own trap. Facebook setting are a little tricky even for site
creator’s sister, it is hard to notice the difference between making your
photos open to “friends” or “friends of your friends”. Alike situations lead to
misunderstanding and arguments.
Privacy is a large rising issue of all mass media nowadays and
social networking makes it even more vulnerable. Nobody teaches people how to
use social networks properly and safely. Some of our parents are skeptical toward
social networking because of old way education, but we are different and this
is the point of getting in trouble. “Our kids today will give everything [in
terms of personal information] away, but it’s not at all clear how this will
shake out in the long run,” says Wharton marketing professor Peter S. Fader.
And this is so true. I want to share my example. My friend is a student of USL –
the best university of London with the starts students. Once, her department
decided to make an experiment, they sent unfamiliar people to the classroom who
asked all students to take piece of paper and write down some information about
them, which usually is used for banking account. They reasoned that this
information is required for the university. All students have written
everything and passed papers to those unfamiliar people, without even asking a
question. That is how new generation is fearless =)
Citations:
- 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/
- Knowledge@Wharton, "Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2262
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