Social Networking

There are many ways that social networking technologies can be used by corporations and businesses.Marketing majors or any other types of majors use computers nowadays. Through network, there are mass amount of information and websites that we do not even know about. Some sites are not even reliable since most of them are not done professionally. Thus, many networking chats, blogs and sites like Facebook, twitter, Myspace and other similar social networking site gathers those people on the same place and discuss what they should be using.

Not only does social networking helps create better site seeing, but also it helps us communicate better. It improves globally and economically. Many organizations either profitable or non profit, they create their own networking sites, so co-workers can vary and share their experiences with each other. They tell about their stories, relates their experiences, rates the organization; so that more enthusiastic younger generations will join and build it even better. "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever." (Langfitt, Frank Social Networking) Linkedin is one of the networks out there that recruits many people for jobs.  Laspina is one of those people that got recruited and she said it was because the company reached out for her and asked her what position she wants.


The benefits of social network also helps improve our communication, because of daily chats and blogs we sent to each other. Unlike reality, whatever we post up, your friends out there will be able to see. Also since now most sites are advancing, we are able to control our privacy of letting who see. For example in Facebook, there are private chats and inbox. Through inbox, we can sent messages privately as well and the person will see the notification once he/she logs on.


The dark side of networking is that there can be loss of privacy even if there are private chats. We do not know if it is the person we are talking to. Suppose if that person's friend is on his account playing a game, or sending misinformation, or possibility hacked. We cannot physically see each other as well. A lot of misinformation going on and misleading people to virus or spyware. There are also some sites that gives spywares and we cannot make sure if every single site has either.

In my opinion, we should be extra careful when visiting foreign sites. Or I could also use yesterday's incident that the Baruch site was attacked. People visiting it could not open up the site. It also keep sending emails saying to confirm who you are and such. I heard it is already fixed, but such things like this happen more frequently now because of the advantages of those with good computer skills. There is that violation of privacy with those emails and site abuse.


Langfitt, Frank. "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting : NPR." NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR. Web. 13 Oct. 2010. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf>