Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Social networking

     Social networking is the great thing that has ever happened. It is beneficial to people who live abroad from their families, they can freely communicate between each other, for businesses, they can introduce their products online, and for everyone else who wants to communicate with others. Also, networking helps employers to communicate with their employees, or to find employees. As was stated in the article "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" by Frank Lanfitt, the web site Linkedin helped Crawford-Hentz to find his employee LaSpina. As he said: "I was very impressed by that, that someone reached out to me, so to speak, with a position and looked at my background and realized there might be a fit here"
     But there are negative side to the social networking, it's rules are confusing and personal pages are open to everyone. Everyone can see one's profile, and see his/hers picture, copy it, and show it to others as it happened to Randi Zuckerberg. In the article "Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private" by Rebecca Greenfield was stated: "Randi has indicated that she only wants her friends to see photos that she has posted. But the way Facebook works, friends of your friends tagged in a photo album also see the entire roll, unless you choose otherwise in the settings of the album posted."
     In my opinion, soon the regulation by the law will be there, and simple and clear rules will be posted to owners of web sites such Facebook or Twitter, so there's no confusion.

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