Erica Tijerina
Professor Rankin
English 1301
03, February 2015

Is communication in social networks a good innovation or the end of true conversations? Social Networks are one of the most entertaining activities to mankind with over billions of accounts around the world. Being very beneficial such as establishing businesses, keeping in touch with long distances friends and family. Spread news faster and provides us with quicker access to information, however sometimes it affects us in the worst ways than imaginable. Social networking including data theft and viruses. There are dangers associated with sexual predators, stalkers and being time consuming.
Social networking has been around for years whether it’s facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, etc. It has been studied since the beginning of the 20th century. A social network service is a web site that allows people to create a public profile for everyone to see. There are both positive and negative effects of social networking. Facebook is the most used and populated website on the web. Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It has already attracted over a half a billion people around the world and it still continues to grow. Years ago facebook wasn’t as a popular as it is now with only 8 % of the U.S. population signed on to facebook. Today, more than half of Americans over the age of twelve have a facebook profile. For twelve year olds to have a facebook profile of their own is just unsafe. There are a lot of strangers that they can come across and not even know it.
Social Networking online is a relatively new way for people to communicate, sell products or services, spread news, and keep in touch with friends and family, all through a website that's been set up just for this purpose. There are a variety of social networking sites all with different focuses and features. Some are public while others are private.
Social Networking has taken the online world by storm, but there are several reasons why social networking is bad. Whether you use sites such as Facebook and Twitter for personal or business reasons, sometimes it's best to use caution. When you consider that social networking can be both fun and productive, it's difficult to imagine that there could be reasons why social networking is bad. Still, there are some aspects of this type of communication that have drawbacks. Anyone can be who or what they want on the internet…. A forty year old man could target sixteen year old girls. One of the main reasons why people avoid social networking sites is because they are afraid of a lack of privacy. Some personal information is required to be submitted when signing up for these programs, and there have been horror stories