Social Networking

Social networking sites can be used in a lot of ways in todays society.

According to the article Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt companies use social networking sites to look for potential employees. This is a very common use for these sites amoung other things. Sites such as Facebook allow you to interact with a person in an impersonal way. It allows you to stay connected with others which has become so popular these days.

The benifits of these technologies to society is that people can stay in touch with one another. It makes for easy communication. These sites allow people to express themselves and make new friends. The sites also allow people to advertise themselves and market themselves for free. These qualities are very beneficial.

The dark side to these social networking sites is that it can cause some people to become obsessed. Some people literally post their whole lives on these sites, and you can never be 100% sure who is looking at and receiving the information that you put out there. People can save your information and do god knows what with it, i know because it has happened to me. Thats why i dont put all my real information on the internet because nothing is ever really deleted and you never know who is reading your stuff or on your page, so its always good to be careful.

I think these technologies will continue to evolve in the future because people simply want to know whats going on in the lives of other people at every minute of everyday...and i think these sites for the people willing to participate makes this possible. I think people need to always be careful because these sites continue to push the limits and come out with the next best trend and that could get dangerous.