Social networking has become a part of everyday life. Whether it be through Facebook, twitter, and even LinkedIn, people all over the country and even the world are connected and can interact through social networking. There are so many ways to use these technologies, while the most common use is for keeping in touch with friends. Through social networking, we can share thoughts, posts, articles, pictures, and even videos! We are even able to do all this with people living thousands of miles away.
Another use of social networking is staying in touch within the professional world. LinkedIn is a network site in which prospective and current professionals connect with each other to build hopeful and useful relationships for the future. There are millions of active users from students to corporate executives of Fortune 500 companies (Langfitt, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf).
There are obvious benefits to these social networking sites, such as easy methods of communication. We are now able to interact with anyone with access to the Internet. However, when such massive amounts of people are somehow connected together, there is a downside. Privacy is a major issue and according the the article "Who Cares About Facebook Privacy?" students actually do care about what people can see on their Facebook. (Parry, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/who-cares-about-facebook-privacy-students-do/25877). The downside is that information that goes on these sites will always be accessible someway, somehow; privacy is breached by these social networking sites.
Throughout the past decade, these technologies have advanced. We can now video chat with whoever else has access to the network anywhere around the world. Although problems such as privacy do exist, I believe that the benefits definitely outweigh the downsides. In the future, I believe social networking will take its next step to holographic interactions. Although it may seem farfetched for now, it won't be long before technology advances once again.
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