Social Networking

Social networking can be used to keep in contacts with old friends, currents friends, and even find new friends. It takes a lot of time for people to keep up to date in all of our friend’s lives when there is so much going on in society and social networking allows up to do that without having to meet face-to-face.  In the corporate world, social networking technology allows hunting for job candidates to be easier. In the article “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”, by Frank Langfitt he quotes that “Social networking technology is the absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting – ever.” A popular website like Linkedin, has a network of professionals across that you are able to reach and email each other. In a sense, social networking is a community that brings together everyone involved.

In every aspect of argument, there is always a “dark side”.  While keeping in touch with people is a good thing, there is always a bad thing about how much people can find out about you. In the article “Who Cares about Facebook Privacy,” by Marc Parry it is obvious that most students do. The article reports that most Facebook users modify their privacy settings at least once during the year. Most of the majority of people on Facebook are young adults such as college students just trying to keep in touch with old friends and new friends that they meet. The more people use social networking sites, the more information people give out to the world.

I believe the benefits of social networking will out weight the risks. In the future technology is very unpredictable. Many of the technology invented come and go but it just depends on how useful and user-friendly it is to make the idea stay. These technologies must be new and creative to make sure the majority of the people in our society likes the idea.