Femodizzy's Blog

Social Networking December 7, 2009

Social networking is now an integral part of the internet that has opened up a whole new way of staying in touch with loved ones and also exposing businesses to a wide audience like never imagined before. The social networking trend has almost completely replaced emails as a means of staying in touch with friends and family because of the flexibility that comes with it.  Profiles are created in minutes and both photos and videos make it very interesting to use these numerous social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Hi5, Flickr e.t.c . It is great for business and it provides a huge platform for small and large scale businesses to reach out to a huge market and also establish direct contact with people.  This is a smart business strategy because with a social networking site like Facebook that has over 350 million users, it is very ideal for business and conducting surveys. Not only businesses have capitalised on the enormous opportunities these social networking sites present but also, politicians have made full use of them

for running campaigns.  This is because the youths are the bedrock of these social networking sites and once you can win their trust, it is a big advantage to the politicians. Although, these social networking sites have disadvantages an

d users need to be very cautious of what they do and upload on their profiles.  This is because once it’s been uploaded the users never know where it will end up.  However, overall, social networking sites are now part of our lives and users

can hardly go a day without them.  These sites serve as important channels for information,     business and entertainment without having the users pay for them. These days, I rarely email friends and colleagues, I just get on my Facebook or Twitter profile and send them message. The phenomenon of social net working sites is just a tip of the iceberg because there is more to come and we are eagerly waiting for the next big thing.

Social networking ” A qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use”: By Ofcom.org  http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/socialnetworking