Blog Social networking

Social Networking revolutionized the way of communication between people. It is much easier to communicate with others now. Finding friends and jobs are also easier now. I use to spend a lot of money to call my friends and relatives in other countries. Now there are many ways I can communicate with them such as Facebook, Viber, Whats App and many other Social Networking ways. There are cons and pros to the use of  Soial Networking. Many Businesses uses social networking to higher employees. I once applied for a job at Walgreens company and they had me upload my resume and schedule and interview appointment online. They also trained me online, They taught me how to use their system among many other things. I remember also that they asked me for my facebook information during the interview.Crawford-Hentz's discussed his favorite website that helped companies recruit workers. He states in the Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting article that " Linkedin, a network of 8 million professionals spread across the world. Linkedin says users include executives from all of the Fortune 500 companies. Typing keywords into a search engine, Crawford can scrape the entire network to dig out high-quality candidates that she can't find elsewhere.". There are also cons for using these technologies. By relying on these technologies there are many risks such as the leak of confidential and personal information to unauthorized people. Yahoo and T-mobile currently just get hacked and a lot of personal information of millions have been leaked. The article Leaving ‘Friendprints’: How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security mentions that “The way privacy has traditionally been defined is being challenged,” according to Wharton legal studies professor Andrea Matwyshyn, who earlier this year organized the Information Security Best Practices Conference at Wharton. Among other topics, the conference addressed security and safety issues raised by the social networks." I believe that we will see increases in the security measures on social networking in the future. These technologies will continue to evolve as they have been evolving very fast in the past years. I believe that we will start seeing a mix of technologies combined together with much improvement. This is starting to happen and it will continue. For example, Facebook bought Whats App company and it is now being used by Facebook and combined with its services.


1. Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf

2. Knowledge@Wharton, "Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal