Social networking
- 1. In the modern days social networking site has become the popular sites used by most teenagers and as well as individuals. A social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Friendster is used to share similar interest. Whereas social networking sites such as twitter is used by business people to help advertise their business and helping other business people. To have a social networking networking sites the users need to create a public profile within that website that have online. Basically these social sites are able to post personal information, photograph, videos, and comments. These social networking sites can be describe as community based website, where users can form a relationship with others people who have the same network or interest, having private chat rooms, online discussions forum and other opportunity they have online. The attractiveness of using social network will keep growing and the population of users will keep growing anonymously. Although there are a lot of advantages, but in my opinion, it brings more harm than good. First of all, the best reason of having a profile on social networking site, it gives people the chance to stay connected no matter how far they are. This will also help people to keep themselves up to date with their friends or far families. Therefore, using a social network also help people to find their old friend. There are some people who used this network professionally even though they are fine with their career because they able to help people answer any question that relate to the same career that the person have. Social site such as MySpace and Facebook, it gives the opportunity to create an event and invite friends that they want or a group invite, so you don’t actually have to call each person. Therefore, for people who involved with music industry they also can promote their albums or music on site like Facebook or MySpace. Music bands having an upcoming concert can also be informed on the social site which keeps their fans informed and also people can interact with the artist they like. Despite the advantages, there is also some disadvantages of having online profile on social networking sites. Cyber bullying is when a teen get harassed, threatened, humiliated or embarrassed by using the internet or any digital technologies. Recently social network has becoming the target. It is devastating for the victim; cyber bullying can lead to suicide and depression. Social networking site is where they can say thing but not in person. Online bullies confident that and they can make contact with their victims anytime, anywhere, day or night, not just in the school. It is clear that social networking shows cyber bullying is just one of the negative impacts that social networking site has on society today. Communicating with people over the internet makes bad contact on our relationship and at the same time they also can strengthen out week depression we have. The connection with the people we don’t see also can make our depression strong and also bring social isolation. People who isolated they may have a fake healthy friendship by talking or meeting people online. Marriage and carrier life can be ruined by increasing the number of people using the internet.
- 2. Child pornography is the most uploaded and shared due to the popularity and the number of growing in social network. It is also the fastest growing criminal segment on the internet. People been uploading pictures and videos without noticing that the files they upload are inappropriate to post on social network. Microsoft Corporation comes out with a program that can detect and deleted the uploaded picture and video of child pornography. People found too many ways to steal, hack or commit fraud online. Social network has been the main aim for stealing information through different personalities. While creating a profile in a social site it will ask you to fill in information such as your full name, location, email account, friends and relationship. This will make the user unaware and share the information that will harm the user and make the thief to hack the users account easily. To sum up, the disadvantages for social networking outweighs the advantages. Even though the user gets updates all the time, by sharing information online is dangerous. People needs to be aware and be mindful of what personal information they while socializing and networking online. There is some lack of piracy and getting bullied on a network is not a good option. Using a social sites it is suppose to be user friendly not that people can steal identity.