Social Networking!!!

The task to write about social networking sites was good for me as I had researched this craze and there has been much in the news about it while we have been on this course. Social networking sites are good as it helps people stay in touch with people and share pictures for example of a birthday or a night out, that they couldn't attend. These sites though can have negative effects for example if you meet someone and they add you on myspace or facebook, they can learn thigns about you, for example your interests which would have taken them longer to find out if they hadn't read it online. This makes friendships form or diminish faster as people can judge each other by only a snippet of their life. Also I have heard about employers searching people on these social networking sites, they could not employe them as they might have seen pictures of them drunk and the employer could react personally to what they see. These networking sites only show a small part of a persons life and people can judge them too much by what they put out about themselves online.

While we have been on this course there has been much in the news, the suicides of 14 young people all connected by the social networking site Bebo in Bridgend, South Wales. This just shows how big an influence these sites have on young peoples lives. This shows that young people should be monitored using the internet and with the facts I found for the project a large number of them aren't and parents don't know what their child is doing online.