The Influence of Social Networking in Today’s Society & Amongst Generations.

Allowing Facebook and other social media sites at work can increase the morale of employees while building social capital within the organization and creating a network that will allow the company to recruit talented employees. Morale is increased when workers can take short breaks away from their work assignments to pursue their own interests online. Interpersonal relationships are also strengthened amongst workers within the organization when they interact with one another’s Facebook profiles. Social networks, such as Facebook and Linkedin, allow employees to stay in touch with previous co-workers who could be recruited to the company (Skeels & Grudin, 2009).

Social networking websites such as Face book, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and You Tube are reaching 1.2 Billion users, globally, (ComScore, 2012). Their unprecedented popularity has the opportunity to influence lives in numerous ways. Current research is revealing socialising online is not only popular among young people but across older generations as well, (Hampton, Goulet, Rainie, Purcell, 2010) (ComScore, 2012). Several online communities are redefining traditional social relationships by developing a new style of internet initiated intimacy. Furthermore, academics may have to adapt current research processes before being able to truly understand the extent

Before getting started on the topic listed above, what exactly is Social Networking? A social networking service is reported as being an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting social networks or social relations among people, who for instance might share common interests, activities, went to the same school, work at the same company and the list goes on. Although social networks can be useful; they can also be damaging to an individual’s career, personal life, and affect many other aspects of their lives. In this paper instead of discussing the positive of social networking, what about some of the more common negative

Social Media sites enable people to connect and interact with people all over the world, in doing so it becomes hard to distinguish between meaningful friendship and friendship phantom through Social Media (Strogatz). Students confide with one another as they share things in common, from degrees to favourite TV shows. As these relationships form the line between reality and Social Media friendship starts to fade, as users start to confide in one another about serious personal matters beyond university or collage life. As Social Media expands privacy declines. Baruh &Soysal, (2010) state that ‘private and public are rapidly away’, this means that our private and public/social lives are being infused together. The line is blurring out. People can assess other users private information by looking them up in social outlets, this causes a sense of paranoia as it is unknown as to who and how many people are surveying your account, and what they are doing with the existing information. Furthermore, Social Media sites have made it easier for

Society is constantly changing and will continue to change in the future. The change is predictable because people change their ideas, routines, and views frequently. One of the topics that is typically brought up when discussing the influences on how society is changing, is social networking. There are two sides to every story. One side of the effects of social networking is that it is beneficial to society by informing people on particular situations in the world and on current important events. The other side views social networking as dangerous and drama filled. While there are benefits and dangers to social networking's effects on society, I will argue that social networking has changed society more negatively than positively.

The advent of social networking revolutionized the manner in which people interacted and how businesses are conducted. People and business organizations were able to connect with individuals and entities across geographical barriers that were previously difficult to overcome. Social networking sites have revolutionized the manner in which information is shared resulting in an increased social awareness of various issues that affect societies. Through social networking, new opportunities have been created

NOTE: In the social networking environment I view everyone’s time equally. Social networking is used to make contacts. A little qualification conversation takes place that is needed to set up future communications. When those goals are met the people move onto more contacts.

The Internet has also allowed people to form online relationships with ‘virtual’ friends. “A major research study published in December 2008 on the use of digital technologies by adults from 16 industrialised nations suggests that “on average [they] spend a third of their leisure time online, belong to two social networking sites and have regular contact with 16 people who they have ‘virtually’ met on the internet” (TNS 2008, 2 as cited in Harrison, R, 2009, p. 110). These kinds of relationships while may seem harmless have had negative effects; people cheating on partners with people they have met online and teenagers becoming obsessed with Social Networking Sites, constantly checking and updating their ‘status’ and messages.

Social networks have immensely shaped as well as changed the contemporary society. Human interactions, in various settings, such as the workplace and social spaces have been extremely re-designed that a person can communicate, interact, and share his or her daily life experiences with whomever he or she pleases with just a few clicks of the button. Digital social networking has influenced all age groups and aspects of human life. Therefore, if implemented in the correct manner, it stands exceedingly useful in helping individuals and entities, such as businesses flourish and become prosperous (1). Digital social networking could be defined as an organization of persons, brought closer, often by

Social networking websites (further referred to as SNS) are web based platforms in which people connect to other individuals that they already have a real-life connection to, locate individuals they have shared interests with, and they allow users to share information with others such as photographs, life events and thoughts. Being able to keep current with one 's personal group quickly and easily is one of the reasons SNS have become so mainstream (McKensie 436). The ability to communicate to a wide audience in real time has its benefits, such as maintaining friendships with people one would have otherwise lost contact with, giving shy people the ability to interact with others without feeling overwhelmed, and constructing new relationships with peers.

In modern times, technological advancement has greatly improved the social benefits within society. A vastly growing percentage of young people across America are growing more proficient in using the internet for communication across their country to international regions. In the year 2009, a national survey was conducted for individuals between the ages of eight to eighteen years, where the average time adolescents spent on any form of social media was more than 7.5 hours of a day. Once the average time of multitasking was calculated, such as listening to music and web surfing, the overall average time amounted to 10 hours and 45 minutes. (Brown & Bobkowski 2011)

Advancing technology has played a part in the new methods of communication and with being very social creatures, who experiment with new ways of socializing, have found a new way to connect. Social Networking websites have changed how the world connects with friends and family, changing from the traditional ways of connecting with others like face-to-face connections. Many concerned themselves that social networking friendships centered on expectations that sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and more would be used primarily to build online friendships between physically separated individuals lacking face-to-face interactions. These sources are becoming what people rely on to meet and stay in touch with friends and family. Shannon Vallor in Social Networking and Ethics states that “Within five years of Facebook’s launch, . . . a significant majority of SNS users were relying on these sites primarily to maintain and enhance relationships . . . with whom they also had a strong offline connection…” (2015). Has social media become an alternative way people communicate instead of face-to-face interactions?

Social networking is an online community of people with a common interest who use a website or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information and resources, according to Webster. There are countless social networking sites that make it possible to establish connections between people. Some of the most popular sites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. These social sites make it easier for people to find and communicate with others that share the same network. Although social media leads people to have more interaction and promotes long-distance relationships, it has a lot of negative qualities that tends to drive people to do thing they wouldn’t normally do. When people put an excessive amount of personal information on a profile, it gives predators and bully’s the opportunity to attack them. Many of the users are addicted to social media and they become isolated by using these sites. Social networking must be used in moderation, especially since it leads to several significant negative effects on society.

What this research paper has demonstrated is that there are implications users need to be aware of before signing up and placing their profile on these social network sites. Social Network sites for human communication are rising at a staggering rate, especially since the Internet is the world’s fastest growing communication medium. It can diminish the quality of physical social interaction. Relationships on the

There has been a lot of theory about the effect of Social Networking Sites on people’s lives. Some apprehension that Social Networking Sites utilization may reduce human connections and contact, maybe expanding social segregation. Others delight that pervasive network utilizing innovation will add to individuals ' stores of social capital and lead to other social adjustments.