While people have been using the internet to unite with others since the early 1980s, it is only in the last decade that social networking services have multiplied and their use has become a common practice particularly amongst young people (Horizon, 2009).
Social networking services can be defined as:
Web-based facilities that allow individuals to (1) build a public or semi-public profile within a restricted system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and negotiate their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and language of these connections may vary from site to site (boyd & Ellison 2007).
Over the past few years social network has evolved from simple …show more content…
Some of which are that social networking is good in helping connect with old school friends but on the other side when you add a person as your friend you do not know if it is the actual person or someone else using their account. It has helped build business online where now a days more online focus shopping is common on the other side there is identity theft where people trying to steal information of others and trying it to make theirs. It is also a place where at times people come together and support each other whereas it is a place where the people start bashing/bulling …show more content…
Social networking site use is the number 1 online activity for 16 to 29 year olds with 83% reporting they use them on a regular basis (Nielson 2010a:136).Social networking site lets users to communicate with others in many different ways. The most frequently used forms of communication include: updating one’s own profile; commenting on photos or other posts; posting public messages to others or wall‟ style messages; social network based instant messaging (Nielson 2010a:169). While the reading and writing of blogs remains in the top 10 online activities carried out by young people, its popularity is decreasing particularly with the rise of micro-blogging practices, for example via Twitter and the Facebook’s status‟ function, both of which are further enabled by the use of social networking sites via mobile phones (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith & Zichur
Social networking services can be defined as:
Web-based facilities that allow individuals to (1) build a public or semi-public profile within a restricted system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and negotiate their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and language of these connections may vary from site to site (boyd & Ellison 2007).
Over the past few years social network has evolved from simple …show more content…
Some of which are that social networking is good in helping connect with old school friends but on the other side when you add a person as your friend you do not know if it is the actual person or someone else using their account. It has helped build business online where now a days more online focus shopping is common on the other side there is identity theft where people trying to steal information of others and trying it to make theirs. It is also a place where at times people come together and support each other whereas it is a place where the people start bashing/bulling …show more content…
Social networking site use is the number 1 online activity for 16 to 29 year olds with 83% reporting they use them on a regular basis (Nielson 2010a:136).Social networking site lets users to communicate with others in many different ways. The most frequently used forms of communication include: updating one’s own profile; commenting on photos or other posts; posting public messages to others or wall‟ style messages; social network based instant messaging (Nielson 2010a:169). While the reading and writing of blogs remains in the top 10 online activities carried out by young people, its popularity is decreasing particularly with the rise of micro-blogging practices, for example via Twitter and the Facebook’s status‟ function, both of which are further enabled by the use of social networking sites via mobile phones (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith & Zichur