Even if you are not registered, your friends will torture you with messages to join them on their network. The most famous social websites are the ones like MySpace and Facebook. The network you choose will depend on where most of your family and friends are registered, but why do we even bother to join these kinds of networks ourselves? And what do we do with it after signing up?
The main reason that I joined a social network is that I can keep in touch with my foreign friends. I travel a lot and therefore I will meet many international people who I still want to have contact with after I got back home. The fact is that I only sent them one or two messages and after a while both can not even be bothered to maintain this ‘friendship.’
Even though you probably never hear from them again, you will still keep these so-called friends in your list. Probably just in case you will travel through their country and need a place to crash.
What I also notice on these sites, is that people can make a real competition out of networking. Some are just going for the biggest group of ‘friends’ and accept anyone that comes on their way. I really do not see the point in this, because this way anyone can see your profile and god knows what they can do with it. In my case, no one I do not personally know will even stand a chance in getting accepted as a friend.
For me a social network site is just a way to communicate with my friends when I cannot contact them in any other way. I still prefer the phone or even e-mail over these social network sites, so no one else can join me in a personal conversation.
Statement: Twitter is a valuable tool for communication or Twitter is a hype.
Almost everyone must have heard about it: Twitter. It is the newest way to communicate with people through really short messages. This newest hype on the internet will probably blow over eventually or will just be overshadowed by something newer.
Another word for twitter is micro blogging, but what is wrong with just normal blogging. In this century one of the most essential things in life is timesaving, apparently. People always come up with new ideas to make things simpler and faster, but it does not always mean it is better.
I have looked at the website and do not know what to do with all these short post. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of people who twitter about the same boring things, most not even relevant.
To get back to the statement above, I do think that Twitter can actually be a valuable tool for communication, as it has been proved in the past. When several events occurred somewhere in the world, Twitter was the first one to spread out this information. This way you can say that it is one of the most effective and fast ways of communicating to one another. On the other hand Twitter is just a hype and as I said before, I think that every hype will pass and will be replaced with another. Twitter is not the only social network that is leader on the internet, and it will not be the last one invented.
Whether you like it or not, you can not get around all the social networks that our World Wide Web has to offer. When you think of a social network, the first sites that come in mind are probably the ones like Facebook or MySpace. The one that I want to talk about is LinkedIn. This is also a really familiar network, but more used in business rather than daily life.
LinkedIn is a network on which you can exchange information, ideas and opportunities. The difference between LinkedIn and other social networks is that it is a professional network that is set up to get in touch with colleagues and to do more networking with as many other business people as you can, and last but not least to get that job that you really want.
People can get to a job faster if they properly make use of this network. When you are signed up for LinkedIn you can make sure that others , your former boss for example, will give you recommendations. This way it will give other business people a good view of who you are as a (co)worker and therefore people will sooner add you in their networks and finally you will end up in the network of your new boss. Also for sales and marketing objectives, LinkedIn can be an outcome. People can make a whole new network of clients through this and it is also a way to distinguish yourself from others.
In short, social networks can have a real contribution towards business life. Not only to built up a good network of clients, but also for getting a new job or sell your products.
