Social networking has opened the door to so many possibilities. Not only is it a way for people to connect to one another, it is a way for people to connect to opportunities in life they otherwise would never had been able to get through on their own. Through social networking we are able to keep reconnect with old friends, find relative, meet new people and keep up to date with the latest social buzz going on. It is also a way for businesses to reach out to their customers and allow them to be interactive and keep them posted with what's new and what they have in stored for the future. Another aspect of the social networking is being able to find a job or for employers to find possible new employees. In Frank Langfitt's article Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting; he talked about how great these social networking sites are. "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever."
There are many benefits to this technology as I described above with the ways it can be used. However with everything good there is some bad. Clive Thompson talks about how some of the changes in Facebook's news feed has become and breech of privacy in his article Brave New World of Digital Intimacy. When Zuckerberg decided to add the news feed, everything anyone has updated is posted so that theirs friends could know about it, “it was now like being at a giant, open party filled with everyone you know, able to eavesdrop on what everyone else was saying, all the time." Privacy features had been added to customize what you want to be seen, but no matter what there still is not any complete privacy available.
I feel that social networking will become a part of practically everything. It is already a big part of our society today. I just think as time goes on there will be a bigger dependence on social networking sites to evolve and expand.
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