Blog Social Networking

According to Investopedia, networking is a process that fosters the exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share a common interest. It may be for social or business purposes. Networking could be a complicated task, especially for shy people who have a hard time trying to connect with other people who are strangers for them. However, the new media is here to help those shy people like me. New media allow us to create an identity online where you do not need to interact face to face with the people who are on the other side talking back to you. Social networking has become more popular in the last years where more businesses use it to advertise their brands, to do research about their sales, and to reach out to new employees.

In the article, how to use social media in your career, the author states Social media is now a critical part of the way people in most walks of life communicate and a key part of how work gets done — from corporations to government. Reflecting how point social media can be, the Department of Homeland Security is collecting social media profiles of potential immigrants as part of its evaluation process. It also mentioned that as social media has become more popular — an estimated 81 percent of Americans have a social media account — there are also more instances of people who have gotten in trouble for their social networking habits. The fact is that it’s impossible to separate the personal use of social from the professional, and everything you say online can and will be used against you. 

Everything has positive and negative aspects. In this case, the positive aspect of social networking is that you can promote, advertise, socialize and do networking in a faster platform like Facebook, Twitter, Linking and others. However, because social networking has increased quickly, most employers take a look into your social media to qualify the employees they migh hire. Social networking also can be used to commit fraud because you don't know who is behind the screen, some people can pretend that they want to do business with you, but at the end, they only take advantage of you. For that reason, you should be careful when you want to do social networking.