Social Net'g

Social media software and new technologies’ using had shrinking the world on to computers and networking in front of people. Sharing information, sharing stories, reading News, hearing music, watching videos, exchanging information, shopping activities and so on, are the activities that social media providing to users whom like us.  Benefits from social media networking using are tremendous.

•       Paper less and go green: online bases without mails
• ·      Cost saving for transactions and paperless
• ·      Convince with any devices like smart phones, computers, iPad, etc. on anywhere
• ·      Creativities with sharing information
• ·      Networking relationship building in specific groups of people, such as physicians and patients could share some information
• ·      Educational purposes
• ·      Information technology using for disabilities people (Friedman)
• ·      Globalization tools and helping homogenies users become more and more sophisticated 
• ·      Could be tools helping fight with crime and help providing evidence in legal battles.

Things always have two sides.  There are lots of benefits from social media networking and related technology that we could think of. However, there are some negative impacts to the society on its dark side. 

• ·      The biggest down side is Internet addiction. People could not live on the world without phone and Internet. People tend to be depending on too much on online interaction and paying less attention to real world social interactions.
• ·      Information confusion: there are too much information available and makes confusion to users.
• ·      Abuse of computer technology and lack of legal restrictions on online activities.

Social networking and new technologies have being widely used everywhere and will keeping continued to be one of the major roles in people’s daily lives. From text messages, emails, voice calls to newer social net working and video chatting, Facetime, the new communication style will appear with the improvement of new technology.

"Fight Terror With YouTube" by DANIEL KIMMAGE, The New York Times June 26, 2008, OP/ED page. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/opinion/26kimmage.html>

 "I'm innocent, just check my status on Facebook," by Damiano Beltrami, The New York Times, November 12, 2009, p. A27. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/nyregion/12facebook.html>

"The Use of Information Technology to Create a Better Workplace for Individuals with Disabilities," by R.F. Adler, Friedman, L.W. and Friedman, H.H. Management Online REview, August 2008

< http://www.morexpertise.com/download.php?id=101>

"Physicians and Patients Who 'Friend' or 'Tweet:' Constructing a Legal Framework for Social Networking in a Highly Regulated Domain" by Nicolas P. Terry, (July 29, 2009).

<http://ssrn.com/abstract=1440813