Social Networking

   Social networking is used in today's society by almost everyone. It is used to get into contact with friends, family and people you may want to get to know. Social networking sites are places where you can share interests, photos,and other information that you night have to put out  there. These sites are often used for work, as a hobby, playing games, sharing interests, health and medical reasoning or just for purely social use. A few examples of social networking sites are Facebook.com which may be the most popular, Twitter.com, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, etc...
   Social networking are also used by corporate businesses to get into contact with other companies across the globe instead of having to travel from country to country personally to get the necessary job done. They also use it to share or exchange certain types business related information and for recruiting and job application measures. An example of businesses using social networking is seen in the article, "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" by Frank Langfitt. It talks about how social networking technology is great for recruiting because it allows employers to look at a person's profile to see if they can be a candidate for any position that they might be offering. It also enables employers to create profiles to market themselves to people and whoever is interested can contact.
    Although, social networking may be great, it also has a bad side to it. All the information and pictures that is being posted can be manipulated or used by others to falsify identity. Social networking can also be used as a means for sexual harassment, abduction crimes and even cyber bullying. People who use social networking are known to be teens from the ages of 12-17. This information is shown in the article "Teens getting savvier about MySpace, especially girls" by Alex Zaharov-Reutt. This article basically shows you the statistical information of who uses social networking sites and the comparison of females to males relevant to their apparent age groups.
    My reasons for using social networking is to keep in contact with friends and family overseas. Really and truly, I can deal without having Facebook or any other social networking technology as I only use the computer for job related activities and school.