Soical Networking Sites are Okay

The idea of social networking sites is to keep in touch with people and to socialize about your life, creating a profile with your interests and other personal information about you. In this new age of technology and fast paced society, the invention of social networking was also created, keeping up with society’s ever changing ways to communicate and share ideas. Social networking site creates a virtual union, people who are connected to each other and is able to converse, and meet new people. This revolutionizes the way we communicate, knowing how we don’t need to travel to see old friends, but just to view their status on a social networking site.

Many people today uses a social networking site such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites for basic communication with other, sharing information about themselves, sharing ideas they might have, and keeping in touch with other people who use MySpace or Facebook. It is also a place where companies promote their products, where music bands promote their song, and a place where people promote a just cause or an event. But there are people who have a different intention when using social networking site and have gone beyond the limits of friendly usage, these people intentions are to harass others, stalk people they are obsessed with, and sex offenders who prey on minor who are innocent and are not aware of their presence. There are also people bent on ruining your life, posing as an individual and spreading rumors and destroying their own reputation. However, most users of social networking sites use it in proper conduct, not using social networking sites to harm people.

Since the usage of social networking sites, it has affect people who uses it constantly. Social networking sites have made people obsessed with their user profile, causing users to chronically update their own status, as well, check other people’s status in the process. Social networking sites have also affected user, determining whether someone will get a job or get into desired college they had applied to, since the interviewer who see the qualifications of the applicant might also dig for further information about that person, going to their personal user profile on a social networking site, seeing what kind of person the applicant really is, an upstanding person or having pictures of illegal activities, smoking or getting drunk on their user profile. These sites have also affected people to become less personal in the way they communicate, rather then traveling far away to meet an old colleague, the user can just find them on a social networking site to meet them. Social networking site has also lead to quires extending into real life, for instance, when a user request for a friend request, or requests to be placed on the top ten best friends list and is denied then wonders to themselves “why didn’t they approve me, I thought we were best friends”, this intern, has affected people to see that their friends, were not really their friends.

Personally have a MySpace and a Facebook and are aware of the potential problems I may encounter. I see social networking site as more of a benefit then harm to people if, the users are also aware of the potential harm, being cautious not to give out personal information, and making sure they know who they are accepting as friends. At this point in life, I use social networking sites only to connect with people I once new, such as old friends from high school, and even some people from middle school and do not consider myself a chronic user of social networking sites. I believe social networking sites a fine to have as long as the user is cautious and knows the potential dangers they may face.