2.3 Social Networking

Social Networking

Social networking according to this week's required reading (boyd, 2007) harness the power of web 2.0 by allowing you to:
• construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system.
• articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection.
• view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

The information submitted to these social networking sites like linkedin, orkut, facebook, myspace, bebe can then be sold to make profit as pointed out by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, that explains it could lead to a security risk. These social networking sites tends to be a faddish with big changes from 2003 to 2009 in which social networking site is popular for example friendster in 2003, myspace 2005~ , facebook currently and possibly twitter rising quickly in fame and popularity.

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Twitter
From my visits to and readings on twitter, I fount that it allows you to share short 'tweets' or text messages with everyone. This can be on any subject and topic with twitter allowing you to follow your favorite tweets, topics and people. This can be seen by the Queen of English having her own twitter account.

The usefulness of twitter as a web 2.0 technology and possibly the future biggest social networking site is that it allows you to gain further insights into topics, discussions and people's lives quickly and easily.

Reference
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

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