Social Networking

Social networking is being used by almost everyone nowadays from the high school student to the corporate executives in large companies. Social networking can be used a multitude of ways. People can use it for finding information on certain things because its more reliable to find someone who knows what you are looking for than relying solely on the internet. Additionally, corporations use social networking to gauge how the public responds to the company's products or to listen to feedback and improve upon their products. Social networking is beneficial to many people. As stated in Frank Lanfitt's article, Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting, " But what really makes LinkedIn helpful us that it allows users to share their online Rolodexes...With LinkedIn, he can find people faster using a vastly increased network of contacts." As you can see, social networking can help people find jobs easier since you can find people for any type of job. But social networking is not always a good thing. Social media can have a "dark side" as well. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education's article, They're Back, and They're Bad: Campus - Gossip Web sites, they state, "Students have more ways than ever to post anonymous attacks on classmates, thanks (or rather, no thanks) to new and expanded online forums." This article shows that social networking can be used negatively since there are sites out there that are made for users to hurt other people. These people would encourage the anonymous users to post embarrassing pictures and videos of others. In the future, social networking is just going to get easier to do. People would be able to find people for jobs easier and bullying online would be easier. I think that nothing much would change in the future regarding social networking but it would just be easier to use than it is now.