Saturday, March 3, 2012

Social Networking

 The Social Network is one the most common technology which people use to communicate to each other. Companies and industries use the social network in their production, for example some companies have their own blog-site where their employees can use for share basic information regarding with projects to the company. Other companies use this kind of technology to listen the employees' opinion regarding with the rules, condition, systems and management in the workplace. CEOs use the Social Network for recruiting new workforce.
Another benefit that the Social Network technology gives to the companies, is that some problem can be resolve much easier than before. For example, the most notorious problems for the companies, it used to be the communication and distance, between production factories and headquarters. Before people have to use the telephone and travel in order to know what is going on to each or something relate with the business. Today companies avoid this problems and they use the technology to be informed such as Text messages, Chatting on the computers, Twitter, Facebook and Blogs.
Is there a "dark side"? If this is a real question, it could be very easy and difficult at the same time to answer this question. However, in my opinion I believe that technology does not have anything about dark side instead of that, the dark site is the people because is the one who uses the technology and put the good and the bad things such as opinions, experiences many other things.


  1. Being There: The subtle art of the Facebook update, by Virginia Heffernan. The New York Times Magazine, Feb 15, 2009, p. 25.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln-medium-t.html
  2. Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum by Stephen J. Dubner. NYT Feb 15, 2008http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/is-myspace-good-for-society-a-freakonomics-quorum/

1 comment:

  1. Though it may not be as popular as a main stream social networking site, I think a social network in a company's intranet is a great way for employees to interconnect and form elaborate, and useful networks at the work place. This is particularly good because it also maintains a sense of professionalism. One may not want to include workmates in their personal Facebooks/twitters/what have you.

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