The meaning of Social networking is to communicate with people and it was only used for personal life when it started a few years ago. Nowadays corporations and small businesses are widely using social networking as an advertisement platform. I must agree that it is the fastest advertisement platform to promote your business or items or services. An Article named “Real Facebook shop in virtual world breathes life into Mars” by Rufus Jay shows how Mars is taking steps to sell their real products on Facebook. After reading Rufus jay’s article, one can say that social networking is not limited to advertisement, anyone can sell their products.
Social networking is a great way to stay connected with people because people are so busy nowadays. When there was no social networking, people have to have someone’s number or address to stay connected. It helps people in making new friends or to join the community. Even if you are looking for a job then there is no other better resource than social networking. In the impressive article, “How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power” by David Carr explained that how the Obama campaign used social networking to interact with people by going against Google and Yahoo.
Yes, social networking has a dark side too. Imagine your employer sees you photo doing some weird stuff on social networking site, what will happen the very next day on the job? The main issue is privacy. There is nothing hidden on the sites. One of my friend's Facebook account was hacked and was used to harass girls. He got into a big problem but later the law enforcement found out that the account was hacked. I cannot make a statement where will be the social networking in the future because it all depends on their users, How they want to use it.
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