Social Networking
Social networking is a place where individuals getting
socialize with other people into specific groups using the social sites.
According to mashable.com, “A social networking service is an online service,
platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or
social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or
activities and people with similar or somewhat similar interests, backgrounds
and/or activities make their own communities”. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and
Friendster are examples of social sites. However, there are some benefits and
drawbacks of social networking towards individuals or people.
The social networking may help people to connect with other people
which are separated by distance. For instance, parents which living in Malaysia
can still connect with their children who were studying at foreign country. Other
than that, social networking is also useful for the people who work on a
business and really need to find for consumers or on the other word, to expand
their market opportunity in the easiest way. Some people that are new to
business may advertise their products and services on the social sites in order
to grasp attention from the public.
Exampe of Social Networking Sites
However, social networking may also result in time wasting which
is a drawback for the user. For example, students could not finish their
assignment because of the addiction of Facebook. The time which is consumed for
them to finish their assignment is easily wasted by commenting on post and chatting
with their friends. On the other hand, people also can be easily be a victim
for predators which are eager to steal someone information from the social
sites. Therefore, the social sites users must be conscious towards these kind
of people and must limit the personal information on the social sites.
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