Sunday 30 October 2011

GD TOPIC - Social Networking


Social Networking:

     People can today keep themselves connected to their near and dear ones all the times through social media. They can easily correspond with them anytime they want to do. With offline messages like scraps and offline chat messages they can easily leave a message to their near and dear ones, asking about their welfare or having an informal chat of any type, anytime.

-- Social networking has enabled us today to climb the mountains of connectivity with minimal cost (just the internet access charges). Most of the online services like chatting, emailing etc are totally free.


-- Social media is meant for the masses. Anyone and everyone can use the platform.

-- Social causes are promoted through various communities and groups in the websites and this type of awareness can create magic.

-- Social media is helping business organisations know and understand their customers better. The rewards of this intimate customer engagement, access and dialogue are increased brand relationships and loyalty.

-- Social media is contributing to more jobs. Increasingly, employers are posting waves of jobs with "social media" in the title to fill an enormous demand for individuals who can utilize these web-based networks to a company's benefit.

-- Having social media skills on your rsum is a boon right now in many organisations.
CONS

-- Privacy issues: The social media platforms provide public access to private information.

-- Security issues: One can fall victim to several kinds of malware. 

It is vulnerable to hackers who want to take advantage of the users.
-- Potential time waster: Some employers have banned social media sites from the office.-- Fake profiles spreading hatred: With so many fake profiles coming up in these websites, one does not need to know rocket science to comprehend the dangerous aspect of social networking. This type of open hatred is unstoppable in a website unless the administrators come up with a strong guideline which is highly unlikely for the moment.-- Teenage health: Children of teenage who need to go to the fields and play with their real friends are busy with unidentified people on the net chatting with them, emailing with them, talking about their welfare and having a behavior in such a way that they are even more to them than their real friends.