SOCIAL NETWORKING

It becomes more difficult, When you try to find the difference that social networking is bad or good for the society. Social Networking is being used by industries and small companies. Like, EBay for example. Sites like EBay help people to buy or sell right from their home. It also helps to the people who wants to sell their old item and to the people who wants to buy the used item for cheap price. Basically, it helps to connect two people or more for their own need. In this whole thing ebay also makes money. Also, Sites like paypal let you do your whole banking just on your fingertips. Then there are other sites like craiglist.com which are 100% free to use. They don't charge you penny to use their service. This kind of sites always helps society.
There are different kind of sites like Wiki and Blogs, which we learn in our class. These sites are helpful and also hold value in people life. You can learn so much from this site, in terms of your studies or just for genreal knowledge.

Then there are sites like Facebook or Myspace, which let you interact with the millions of people all over the world. Also, sites like those and specially FB helps you to be in contact with your old and current friends. Moreover, FB helps you to share current info to all your friends and so, they can see what you are up to. Sites like FB also help in the bad time. For Example, student of NIU had no source to find out where abouts of therir friends. During that time college alert system went down and also their cell phone service. That time students and parents used the Facebook to find out the information about their friends and kids through Facebook "status" featues. So, social sites like this do help you in different ways and different form.

Of course there are "Dark Side"of this service. Main dark side of social networking site is privacy. Also, who knows that the information and pictures they have put on the sites like Facebook or Myspace are safe, and will not be use against their will or permission. Also, who holds the right of this stuff we upload on the site. Like, just about month or two ago facebook had changed their policy regarding the stuff that has been uploaded to their site. Facebook said that any info that has been on their site is their property and they hold the right to share that info with other people and companies. This policy changed stired the big problem in the facebook community and eventually Facebook were forced back to their original policy. This shows that how this people can misuse your info. Then sites like Ebay, which helps people to sell and buy stuff had problem of scammers. One upon a time ebay had so many scammers, that to stop them they had to reorgenize their policy.

In my opinion, social nerworking sites have its positive and negative sides. Also, it depends on what and how you use this site for. If you use'em for limited use and visit them few hours a week or months than its fine, but if you become addicted to those sites then it can have severe negative effect on your social ability and also on your personal life.

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