Social Networking

Social networking is a new key term for staying in touch and being connected with your friends as well as with the rest of the world.



What are some ways that these technologies can be used? There are many ways to this aspect if we look at the personal level to many it is a way to stay in touch up to date with the events in your life as well as to learn what are your close friends, relatives or co-workers up to( when I say this I preliminarily think of twitter) but other social websites such as match.com or blogger give us a chance to express ourselves. Like match.com where people are able to show their interests and need and that way be matched with a partner, on dates or just socially or maybe more in this case web based entertained. I heard that this works pretty well and that there is a big resource of different people that might be interested in just same thing as you are. Blogger allows us to post our thought, catalogs different reports get insights for a particular topic etc. and be able to share it with the rest of the world. Also I very much support the use of messengers which are also a way of social networking, where interviews and personal connections can be performed. This can defiantly be loocked at as a benefit because many companies do not have representatives in the city where they might find recruits so a benefit of for example Skype is that there can have an interview with live web cam and audio performance.

The dark side of this aspect is that people can get in trouble by not being careful with the concepts that they post on their blogs, facebook or twitter updates and other might abuse that.

In a way I am afraid where the technology is heading and how feast it is spreading and globalizing people-which is defiantly great-the world is getting smaller and the access to different information is much easier. But the part that scares me is the fact that people are replacing real physical society with the online virtual world. I think allot of time is being wasted on computers while that precious time can be spent out side in the nature, playing sports or just simple socialising among friends rather than on web.