Besides keeping in contact, social networking has other benefits too such as finding a job. Corporations or other people use sites such as LinkedIn to maintain professional connections and build a network. Companies can use it to recruit and find potential candidates. Maureen Crawford-Hentz who is a recruiter for Osram Sylvania, used LinkedIn to search for high quality candidates and reached out to Alfred LaSpina who currently works there. (NPR.org). It helps students and other professionals to find jobs. Social networking creates a faster and more efficient way to keep in touch and get the latest update and news.
Although social networking seems very beneficial, there are cons too. One example would be the loss of privacy. Take Facebook as an example. Every comment, status, photo, or video you post up, anyone has access to it. People has access to your information and can even download the pictures you posted up. Moreover, if you look at Facebook's Terms and Policy, everything you post up onto Facebook belongs to them. That means that they can use the picture you posted up in any way they want.
Also, social networking can lead to cyber bulling. Since people are communicating behind screens, they don't know who is behind it and can pretend to be anyone they want. This also ties in with the lack of face to face communication. As social networking become more and more popular, children rather talk online than meeting and talk face to face. They face their computers 24/7 and this also creates a lack of communication between them and their parents. "Children used to talk to their friends," as a New York TImes article stated. Talking online damages their skill to comfortably talk to others in person.
In the future, social networking will just keep on increasing. There is no way to prevent it as long as technology keeps on increasing. The future generations will rely on it much more and this will just decrease face to face communication. We can tell by just the different generations. I didn't use the internet until I was in middle school. My brother, who's 6 years younger than me started using it when he was in first or second grade. My baby cousin, who's four this year, knows how to navigate through the iPad and watches cartoons on YouTube. This just shows how in the future, social networking will be a huge part in everyone's lives. ALthough it has negatives, social networking keeps us all connected and updated and potentially helps us find a job.
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