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Social Networking

No one is ever satisfied. We are all looking for a way to improve upon ourselves, improve our business ventures, improve our life, etc. We all just want more. There are sayings like "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," but we live in a society where it doesn't have to be broke for us to want to improve it. Even though change is not the easiest thing to adapt to, we still must go through it and therefore we sometimes initiate it to get ahead of the game. Current day technologies have been used in more ways than anyone could have guessed when the technology was invented. For example, LinkedIn has always been a social networking platform that allowed us to connect with one another professionally. Those looking for a job can share their resume and those seeking those looking for a job can search them up. Especially during current times with COVID, this platform has become quite useful for recruiting. In a podcast on NPR, Shally Steckerl said that "with social netwo...

Blog v Wiki

We have so much information at the tip of our fingers. With the tap of a few buttons we could search up anything and find multiple sources of information on it. We could share our thoughts and opinions with others and have immediate feedback from people all over the world. Wikis and Blogs are just some of the platforms that make such things possible. Whether or not the information provided to us is reliable is a completely different story.  One important similarity between wikis and blogs is that they both inspire others to share their thoughts and opinions. It brings people together to work collaboratively. In the article Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid by Michael Wilson (2008) a group of people combined their information in a blog to bust a Drug Raid. One of the contributors to the blog, Mr.Miller stated "a core group of seven people who met through the blog brought the case to the attention of the community board and met with authorities."A group of people who did no...

Social Networking: Effects of Social Media on our Business and Personal Lives

Quarantine was an unexpected twist in all of our lives. We walked into this year thinking that it would be something amazing, but it was the complete opposite. COVID took a lot away from us including most of our face to face contact with one another. During these times we are looking for any form of contact that we may possibly have and social media is one form of communication that we resort to when we can't (or don't want to) see each other face to face. People have used social media for different reasons throughout the years; to talk to friends and family that live a distance away, online dating, etc.. There are things that are normally done face to face that we now have to try and digitally do due to the pandemic. I want to explore the positive and negative influences that social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.) has had on social networking in both the business world (job interviews, networking events, etc.) and our personal lives. Now more than ever we c...