Social networking can be used for many different reasons, some of them are; to stay in touch with loved ones, to stay up to date with politics and and current events, to fill up spare time, to share our opinions, to entertain ourselves and even find a job.
A relatively new social networking site is LinkedIn; a business and employment-oriented site that operates via websites. Once a user creates a profile he can upload and share his work experience, his C/V and skills. One of the assigned reading elaborates on how social networking has boosted job recruiting. Many job recruiters are now looking for potential job candidates online through user’s profile. A job recruiter can search for a candidate by running a search with key words that will match one’s skills and experience. According to Maureen Crawford- Hertz “Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever”. I believe in the future it will definitely be easier for people to find a job. It will also benefit job recruiters greatly since they can find several potential candidates by a push of a button.
Another reason people use social networking is in order to stay up to date with current events and to voice their opinions. For example, people nowadays post daily statuses and shares on their user’s page about the presidency race. People use the social network platform in order to see what others are posting and make up their opinion aboutbl each candidate. Later on, each user uploads his opinion and backs it up with an article/ a video in order to try to influence others to support his chosen candidate. I believe such activities are welcome because it makes people more involved and knowledgable.
I believe there is a “dark side” of social networking. Ultimately, all the information we give to those social networking sites are stored online and can be accesses by the sites and by hackers. According to Knowledge@Wharton, “Few of these users realize that the information they post, when combined with new technologies for gathering and compiling data, can create a fingerprint-like pattern of behavior”.
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