SOCIAL NETWORKING

- A famous man once said How can you squander even one more day, not
taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you
settle for less, when the world has made it so easy for you to be
remarkable? No, he was not talking about the independence struggle;
he was talking about social networking.
- Good Morning ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to discuss Are
social networking sites doing us any good? What bafes me is exactly
why we need a discussion on the topic. I see the good all around me,
dont you? I see it in the increasing literacy rates, which according to the
National Literacy Trust, are directly co-related to childrens engagement
with social media. I see it in the cultural convergence that the entire
world is experiencing today. But most of all, I see it in the smile on my
mothers face, when she is busy messaging her school friends on
facebook, whom she has found after 27 long years.
- Social Networking, a word so common among youngsters in the present
has somewhat taken over their world. It has become so popular among
the hip and young society of today, that it has become almost a way of life
for them.
- In the last few years with faster internet connections coming into service,
the use of social networks have sky rocketed; especially among young
adults
- Has it done more good to society than bad? These questions deserve to
be answered because as more people move towards these new modes of
communication, the higher the infuence it will have on the society as a
whole. Has it done more good to society than bad? These questions
deserve to be answered because as more people move towards these new
modes of communication, the higher the infuence it will have on the
society as a whole.
- Your busy day is done. You head home open up your laptop or head over
to your desktop and turn it on. After impatiently waiting for everything to
load on your computer you open up your web browser. You go to the top
of the page and type in www.face and arrow down in the drop box to
http://www.facebook.com/. As the website loads you wait in
anticipation. When the blue bar at the top of the page loads you
immediately look to the left hand corner of that bar. You glance over the
frst icon which is a silhouette of two people. Any friend requests? You
then skim over to the next icon, a picture of two message bubbles. They
remind you of the ones you would see in a cartoon. Any messages? You
then proceed to direct your eyes over to the last icon, the world icon. Any
Notifcations? You click on these icons and with that click you begin a
social interaction with someone.
- Social network sites can be defned as web-based services that allow
individuals to construct a public or semi-public profle in a bounded
system. One can articulate a list of other users with whom they share a
connection and also view their list of connections and those made by
others within the system. The nature of these connections may vary from
site to site.
- A social network service focuses on building social relations between
people who share similar interests or activities. They essentially consist
of a profle, the persons social links and a variety of additional services.
Most social network sites provide a means for users to interact over the
Internet, such as instant messaging and email.
- There has been a huge interest recently of the impact these sites have on
society and an increasing number of academics have become interested
in studying them. There are
many dangers and problems in using these sites; however, there are also
many benefts, to both the individual and society
- There have been many concerns put forward by academics, people of the
older generation and particularly the media about the apparent dangers
of social network sites and some have even asserted that a ban from
them be put in place.
- Some of these concerns include the breakdown of communication, cyber
bullying and problems associated with exposing personal details on
these sites.
- In addition, they have expressed distress about social network sites being
used as a means of communication for terrorist groups and causing
people to become dangerously addicted to them.
- Because roughly 150 million people use MySpace and Facebook, the door
for social networking abuse is left wide open. Over the past several years,
social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have
exploded in popularity, especially among children, teenagers and college
students
- However, recent events involving child predators and other dangerous
individuals using these sites have raised concerns about safety and
security.
- Many parents view social networking websites with suspicion while
having limited understanding of what these sites really are or how they
work.
- Used responsibly, social networking sites do not pose a danger or threat
to anyone. MySpace and Facebook have numerous benefts for their
users in terms of interacting and talking with other people, but also
provide comprehensive privacy and safety features. For example,
Facebook does not allow people to view others profles unless they are
friends, which require both people to confrm their relationship. It is even
possible to limit the parts of a personal profle which are visible, which it
is visible to, or make the profle completely invisible to everyone.
- If the student is using Facebook, for example, to propel his or her
knowledge, by participating in Facebook group created by a teacher for
students of a particular class, than the social network may have a
positive infuence on education and spark the students interest in
learning certain subject matter.
- Although social network has positive impacts in person to person
communication, studies show that it could have detrimental efect.
- Social networking can enrich social lives for those separated from family
and friends by long distances, bringing them together despite the
physical separation.
- Online communication can help those with dysfunctional syndromes
achieve a level of social interaction previously difcult or impossible. For
some people, interaction with crowds is made easier if they do not
actually feel the physical immersion.
- Social networking sites can bring people together with varying
backgrounds who might otherwise never have met and then encourage
them to extend that experience into real world social functions
- Social networking sites are a good thing. They let people connect,
whether they knew each other in the frst place or not- staying in touch
or making new friends.
- Social networks are also being used by teachers and students as a
communication tool. Many students are already using a wide-range of
social networking sites, teachers have begun to familiarize themselves
with this trend and now are using it to their advantage. Teachers are
doing everything from creating chat-room forums and groups to extend
classroom discussion to posting homework or assignments.
- The relative freedom aforded by social networking services has caused
concern regarding the potential of its misuse by individual patrons.
- Citizens and governments have been concerned by a misuse by child and
teenagers of social networking services, in particular in relation to online
sex predators.
- A common misuse of social networking sites such as Facebook and
Twitter, is that it is occasionally used to emotionally abuse individuals.
Such actions are often referred to as trolling.
- Trolling can occur in many diferent form, such as name calling, playing
online pranks and controversial comments with the intention to cause
anger and cause arguments.
- Cyber-bullying is relatively common occurrence and it can often result in
emotional trauma for the victim. For example, individuals have the power
to post ofensive remarks or pictures that could potentially cause a great
amount of emotional pain for another individual.
- By being aware of your cyber-surroundings and who you are talking to,
you should be able to safely enjoy social networking online.
- Just use your inner voice, it will tell you when something doesnt feel
right about the online conversations taking place.
- When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used.
These websites are known as social sites which function like an online
community of internet users.
- Depending on the website in question, many of these online community
members share common interest.
- The friends that you can make are just one of the many benefts to social
networking online.
- Another one of those benefts includes diversity because the internet
gives individuals from all around the world access to social networking
sites.
- This means that although you are in ____________, you could develop an
online with someone in _________________ or ______________. Not only will
you make new friends, but you might learn a thing or two about new
cultures or new languages and learning is always a good thing.
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