Social Networking

It seems like everyone now a days is trying to networking one way or the other. Social networking is relatively new in today’s society, and it allows people to communicate one way or the other with each other. The idea of social networking allows people interact and share ideas in ways that was never done before. Social networking does in fact help boost businesses in various ways. One way it certainly has helped business is finding the right candidates for the job. Mentioned on “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”, "I ended up looking for consumer product marketing," Crawford-Hentz says. "And I hit upon his profile, and I sent him this e-mail saying: 'Hi, Alfred, I found your profile on line. And we have a position that I think may be of interest to you.'". Recruiters are finding people with the right skills and qualifications for business that requests it. Back in the days, whenever someone need a person for the a job, they would post on newspaper or public forums and people who are interested would come to the employer, now it’s the other way around thanks to social media and social networking. Social media has definitely benefited society in many ways, finding job is now easier, communicating with people of similar interest are also brought closer.

Social networking is equipped with many benefits, however there’s a dark side to all these benefactors. For example, privacy issues. The hot topic that’s trending around social media is the how can we better protect ourselves from identity thefts and better protect our personal information. Once someone upload something or post something on the internet, it’s there forever whether you delete it or not. People should be careful of what they post online or their status. Now a day’s people are craving for attention for those links on Facebook, for the approval of their pictures on Instagram. Mentioned by Virginia Heffernan on The New York Times, people likes to post status about their well beings at any given moments. The fact that they are doing this can easily put themselves in danger letting the public know what they are doing at a given time of the day. 

These technologies will definitely evolve in the future as time passes. As we have seen with Xanga and Myspace, as new technologies and platform surfaces, the older one fades. I wouldn’t be surprise to see Facebook or LinkedIn gets replaced in the next couple years or so. Perhaps we no longer need to type to tweet what we are doing and selfies are no longer a thing.

Frank Langfitt. “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting” NPR.org. November 22, 2006. Web. June 21, 2016

Virginia Heffernan. “Being There” The New York Times. Feburary 10, 2009. Web. June 21, 2016