Introduction
"Asocial network servicefocuses on buildingonline communitiesof people who share interests and activities of others. Most social network services areweb basedand provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such ase-mailand instantservices." Boyd (2007)
What is Social Networking?
Social Networking is the forming of persons into specific group. It is a worldwide community while networks achievable human beings in particular place to some other places through the internet, since internet overflowing those people are looking to other peoples sharing the information of relations, religious, experience of work, etc., Most social network services such as chat, message, email, video, video chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion group and so on.
What are the uses of Social Networks?
It offers some benefits to organization members.
Learning of supports:
Support for members of an organization:
Effort of information and applications:
Common interface:
Examples of Social Networking Services:
There are several sites of social networking sites
Facebook: Facebook is a social networking Web site that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. In May 2007 Facebook launched the Facebook Platform which provides a framework for developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. [3]
MySpace: MySpace is a social networking Web site offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs and groups, commonly used for sharing photos, music and videos. MySpace is currently the world's sixth most popular English-language Web site. [4]
LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. It is an interconnected network of professional all over the world. In the website have more than 50 million members in excess of 200 countries around the world. [5]
Bebo: Bebo is a most popular site in UK. It has a more than 25 million members in this site, the journalist, musicians and writers are using this website interrelation to the people. [6]
Ryze: Another business oriented site called as Ryze. It is a first online networking site; the people who can expand the business networks meeting such as new people to join business, industries, safety, and geographic areas. [7]
What are the Advantages and Disadvantage of Social Networking?
Social networking is a modern creation to facilitate the internet unmoving reputation through the people. Present community to stand the collective of networking site even as advantage and also disadvantage.
Here are the some advantages
Economical
Builds Credibility
Connections
Here are the some Disadvantages
Lack of Anonymity
Scams and Harassment
Time Consuming
On one occasion to understand the advantages and disadvantages of social networking, then you can travel through without fail. [10]
Conclusion
Social networking is great convenience of people. Easily connect with friends, reconnect with old friends with the few button clicks.
However, like all things have well with some people time to spend the internet. As well as the people getting the internet to community, chatting through instant messenger. It becomes a safety and security issues. Online social networking sites agree to user that a constant site and making a explicit or improper content is removed. Some requirement of social networks makes a risky situation of children and young adult. Even though in future will be a technologies surrounding of social networking.
References
Boyd, Danah, Ellison and Nicole (2007) "Social Network Sites: Definition",Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 8:17 PM 11/14/2009
