In society social networking is all about personalization. Social networking sites are meant to be based on what …show more content…
Social network sites are designed for the kind of interaction between people that are already known around them in a community. The “[s]ocial network sites… are structured with the individual at the center of their own community and networks” (Mazali 290). It is abnormal for someone to go onto a social networking site and reach out to people who do not have the same interests or who do not live in the same area. It is considered creepy for someone random to come and friend someone when he/she has no connections with the person. New people are now considered outsiders. Meeting new people is important for individual communities within society to grow and blossom. Ideas and opinions from people who are not originally from a community help the older community blossom. Also, outsiders can help to show problems within a community and because outsiders are frowned upon growth is …show more content…
The fact that people are becoming friends on social networking sites with friends who are in the same communities as them also divides society. People live by others who are in some of the same situations. An example is China Town in Chicago, Illinois. People generally want to live by others who are the same ethnicity as the ones around them. The adults with close to the same ethnic backgrounds have children in the neighborhood that go to the same school and become friends. The children who become close offline eventually become friends online. The adults who have closely related values raise their kids in the same way. When the kids share the same posts and friends on the social sites it divides them from the other communities who have different beliefs. Division in society is then, once again,