Social Networking

 

Technology has evolved over time and has completely changed our society, it has revolutionized the world. Technology has changed many aspects of our lives. Its made learning more interactive and helps people better understand materials they are learning about or having trouble with. It has also helped businesses boost productivity, save money and gain profits.  

Technology has also made it easy for social networks to be part of our daily life and social networking platforms is encouraged for work, life and overall career development. A perfect example of this is  Linkedin, which is used for professional networking and Facebook, which connects people with friends, family and other people they may know. Facebook is one of the most popular social networks and it has proven to be beneficial when used correctly. In the article, How Obama Tapped into Social Networks' Power, By David Carr. It explains how the Facebook platform helped Obama's campaign during his run for president in 2008, his campaign used facebook to raise money, organize locally, fight smear campaigns and get out the vote that helped them overturn the Clinton campaign and then John McCain. However, just like all things in life facebook/ social networks has a dark side, when not used correctly. Majority of the social network users don't read their polices or set their social network privacyon. This has caused many problems for many of the social network users, when their business is out there for the world to see, harming their personal and career life. Therefore, it's always best to be cautious when posting things on social network sites. Since this has been a reoccurring issue for many, I believe technology will continue to evolve and create a way to better handle privacy issues or create more privacy in the internet. This would be an ideal solution, reason being that everything we do now in our careers and personal life involves technology.   

Sources

"How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks' Power," by David Carr, The New York Times, November 10. 2008; at http//www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.hmtl

Knowledge@Wharton, "Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2262

Blog v Wiki

 Over the years the internet has become an important part of our modern lives. Almost every business has a web-site, every household has internet access. This proves the importance of convergence in today's networked society, where we all have access to technology and wireless networks. Blogs and Wikis have become great tools for everybody to use and new ways to interact with their technology. Blogs and Wikis are websites that easily support multiple collaborators to update the websites without requiring a software.  

Blogs can be described as "journal entries" where one person or a team of contributors make entries on a specific topic of their interest, such as describing events, uploading images and videos. Blog entries are written in an informal or conversational style and they are arranged in chronological order, where the most recent entries are displayed on the top of the blog site.

Wikis in the other hand, is a website thats best described as a platform for collectively updating information. It consists of a number of pages that are cross-linked to each other and allow collaborative editing. This collaborative editing is the main difference that separates wikis from blogs, wikis is a site where everyone can edited the content on the wiki website.

Overall, blogs can be used as collaboration when other bloggers interact with each other, one way to do that is by responding to each other via the comment section of their posts. They can also post entries on certain topic that can help another blogger and provide their blogroll or their business website in the entry. Wikis in the other hand already has the collaborative component, therefore, I can't think of another use for wiki that has not been done yet.

Citation

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/355962 

https://tettra.com/article/corporate-wiki/

Social Networking: Better or Worse than the Real Thing?

 I chose to do my research topic on Social Networking: Better or Worse than the Real Thing? I want to show that, this is the most common asked question today. Some people admire it as a revolutionary invention and others appear to take it as a negative impact in our society. I will be introducing both perspectives on this matter. I will be conveying my opinion as well as people's opinions/experiences. The best way to get a well perspective on the subject is by analyzing everyone's views and where they stand when it comes to technology. This will help me cover how technology has evolved over the years, from the time social networking was introduce to society, to our current times and how it has changed our way of living. I will also cover if people have changed their views of social networking, and if the progress of  technology over the years has had something to do with that change.