Social networking technologies can be used corporately and personally. As you
know, in today's world, social networking is not just limited to connecting
with others. However, it also spread the influence for business commerce,
recruiting, and more of others.
As a college student, we often spend our
time on searching for internship. LinkedIn, Monster, and lots of other recruiting
websites provides job opportunity for us, we could have easily gets information
for new updated position and the recruiters can hunt qualify candidates through
these technologies. In the article, “social networking technology boosts job
recruiting” by Frank Langfitt, he determined that LinkedIn has approximately 8
million professionals across the world, and more than 500 of the Fortune
companies. LinkedIn provides a job platform for both job searchers and
recruiters. Job searchers can setting up profiles, listing work history and
specific skills in order for recruiters to get to know them better.
However, there’s also dark sides of
social networking, “Antisocial networking” by Hilary stout, he mentioned new
generations relies on online communication too much, they give and take of
friendship through cellphone text and Facebook comments, which wasn’t real. Many
of the researchers noted that online social networking caused children to
diminished face-to-face meets up, they communicate with each other through texts
and ignore of emotional expression, and that will cause problems for
cyber-bullying and difficult for new generation to read social cues from facial
expressions and body language.
In my opinion, social networking can be
both helpful and bad influence. I like to use social networking to search for
job opportunity or learn about the updated news in order for me to keep track
of what’s happening around the world. But, the bad influence also exists to my
generation. My peers are relies on phone texting, Facebook, twitter to chat
with friends, and sometimes I felt left out from no shown of emotions. It’s
difficult to know what a personal actually means without facial expressions or
we might have easily misinterpret of the meaning.
Cited:
Langfitt, Frank. "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523
Hilary, Stout. " Antisocial Networking"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/fashion/02BEST.html?_r=0
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