Personally, I use social networking websites, apps everyday. Social Networks create bounds for people from all over the world. Language, ethnicity, and nationalities are not boundaries to us to communicate and make friends. These social networking technologies can be used for people to make connections with each other. Also, we get to express our feelings and share our lives freely with our friends or potential friends to let them know us better, and it's a chance for us to know them more. Facebook as an example. We can create group chat and add members to it to discuss group projects or any other assignments. We can sell second handed stuffs on Facebook, such as textbook to save some money while benefitting others for buying a cheaper textbook. Social networks give us a way to spend our idle time. We can laugh at the jokes our friends post, like their "sefies" and reading the news that we're interested in. According to Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting, "professional recruiters have started hunting for job candidates using social networking technology — like the kind found on the popular sites MySpace and Facebook." By looking at our profile online, a job recruiter can find a suitable job for us. Isn't it amazing?
There's "dark side" to social networks. Our privacy is in concern. According to Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private, the sister of Facebook founder Ms. Zuckerberg's family photo went public and tweeted by other strangers, the reason is that the Facebook's privacy setting is too confusing for her. People remain copy right especially we're not celebrities. However, there's majority of people are not sensitive to privacy issue, and post inappropriate photos, comments, and they didn't know that all these strangers can access to your picture. In my opinion, these social networking technologies might have huge impact in the future in the way that almost everything we need to do can be done online. Imagine 30 years from one, we can shop ecommerce store with our friends together.
Work cited:
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/
Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available fromhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf
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