Social Media Networking Technologies

Social media can be used for the collaboration of information and of people. Relationships with stakeholders can be built by the use of social media.

Social media networking is not a program or website, it is a phenomenon where people, institutions can collaborate and connect online both professionally and socially. People can interact and share ideas without geographical, physical or time limitations.

The adoption of social intranet software has been on the rise. This trend has been fuelled by engagement and enthusiasm. Today's intranet software features common social components -- like you would find on public-facing sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Currently, social media is the most popular method of communicating and interacting with others. It is a methodology to new media as it changes and evolves with our needs and expectations. Social media has evolved and adapted to become a huge part of our personal and professional lives.

Social media also allowed students to work with new technologies. Because of this students are becoming more familiar with computers and other electronic devices. (Dunn)

Educators are using social media as professional communities of practice, as learning communities and as a platform to share interesting stories about topics that are being studied in class by students. These prospects make social media exciting for higher education as it provides for more interaction with features such as posting of images, videos or a text response in a conversation and where anyone in the social network can engage with the content, (Johnson, Becker, Estrada, & Freeman, 2014).

Using social media tools in the classroom takes a lot of planning and requires daily maintenance and monitoring. There should also be interactions with the students on a continuous basis. The school’s social media site can form the opinion of prospective, current and past students, (Bennett, 2012).

The development of new technologies that have emerged since the mid-1990s has led to Internetbased applications known as “social media” that enable people to interact and share information

Needs to bring Edublogs to the graduate level for greater use in individualized learning programs and scaffolding (Najjar, 2008)

Social media changes the way people participate and share information among themselves. In this paper, I will be highlighting the impact for enabling new ways for software teams to form and work together. Individuals are capable for self-organizing within and across organizational boundaries. Researchers have given more importance to the social aspects of software engineering, which includes test hypotheses and to create tools to improve practice. Organizations which has solely one individual will be able to have advantage on social media to conceive design, develop, and deploy successful and profitable product lines.

Social media can be defined as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As a phenomenon of only the past couple of decades, it has certainly changed the way we live our everyday lives. Whether socially or professionally, it opens the door to incredible amounts of information; most of which is freely shared.

Our society is filled to the brim with visual images. Some more noticeable than others, yet they all impact our minds and thoughts differently even if the ideal is not visible on the surface. Gender, race, age, social class, etc., they all come into factor when affected by images of society. Although they are just images, current day society has learned to take pictures and warp them into anything they want to create. Some see these new advances of Photoshop and editing as a form of art, signifying a voice in the direction of the image. The conflicting issue is some images are altered to make you believe it is real, therefor making it difficult to know what was altered and what was not. With current day technology and social media, there is a constant push on what you should look like, dress like, be like and most of the time they aren’t even real images due to all its alterations on the original picture. Advertisements and social media of our generation are the true reasonings behind many young women’s insecurities and down falls due to the larger institutional powers at play all within a single picture. American Apparel displays a beautiful, tall and skinny model in the windows of their store front to portray to the young females of our generation the ideal image and style one should portray in order to fulfill this “American” style.

The importance of shifts in academic patterns; technological progress, and student lifestyle changes; schools are compelled to consider new platforms for students to achieve their scholastic goals. As cyber learning evolves, learning and engaging outside of the classroom is one of many changes we see in education today. While technology continues to expand, it becomes evident that the development and widespread usage of technologies allow educators to reconfigure the realm of possibilities for learning in a networked world (Borgman et al., 2008).

Social media has changed the way that people collaborate and share information. Over the past decade, researchers have given increased attention to the social aspects of software engineering, both to test hypotheses and to create tools to improve practice (e.g. team awareness tools about software development .