Social Networking

Social networking is a way of communicating with people all over the world using a website to talk to them. Some of the most well known social networking sites are Facebook, Bebo and Myspace.

Facebook is a huge social networking sites with launching in 2004 it has aleready got over an asstounding 500 million users. As facebook says "Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life." In Facebook you can create a profile where you can add as much or as little information as you want. You can add your own pictures, add contact information and information about yourself and things you like. Facebook allows you to find friends that may already be on facebook by searching through your email account and finding the contacts that they have the email address this is a very handy tool as it lets you find all your friends easily. Facebook also contains a device which sees who your friends are friends with and determines people you might no from that. Facebook is very fast and simple to sign up for and does not take more than a  few minutes to create an account.  Facebook contains a chat application which allows you to talk to other people who are online at the same time this application means that you dont have to take time to actually load up a chat program ie Windows Live Messenger. Facebook allows you to tag all of your pictures, this means that if you have a picture with you and a lot of friends in you can tag your friends and this means that this picture will end up in there pictures too, this is a very handy thing if you like to share pictures. Facebook lets you update your status all the time which mean you can let all your friends know what you are up to. Many phones now have internet access or facebook apps which allows you to contect to facebook any time, but facebook also has a device which lets you text facebook updating your status or emailing your friends.
You can also recieve text messages with updates messages and wall posts helping you keep in touch wherever you are. Facebook also contains many other things that makes your overall experience better you can become a fan of pages, organise events, play games and much more.
Advantages And Disadvanatges Of Social Networking
There are many benefits and good points about social networking. Accounts are quick and easy to create  making communicating even easier. Social networking also has low costs from both personal and business point of views as we are not spending all the money on paper and ink etc. Obviously social networking sites helps build your connections you can talk to anyone in the world at anytime. Social Networks can build relationships and many people find romance over websites like facebook, you can also talk to old friends who you may have lost contact with. From this aspect social networking sites are a brilliant thing to be part of. Another advantage is the easy sharing of files and pictures, this means that there is less hassle for you. You can also use soical networking sites to advertise many different things like events and blogs. Also if you join fan pages you are regularly updated with the latest news keeping you up to date.
There are also many cons surrounding social networking. Many people put alot of information about themselves onto social networking sites these sites make it easier for people such as identity thieves and stalkers which can obviously arise a range of problems. Security is probably the biggest concern about social networking sites. There have been many incidents when people have created an account just to bully or harass other people. Also many people are not the people they make out to be on facebook there have been many cases where paedophiles or murders have used social networkin sites to stalk their victims.

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