Social Networking

Social networking in the corporate setting has its downturns as well as the positives. LinkedIn is a popular networking site where people of corporate companies can add each other and "link up". Facebook is a site where anyone in the world can "link up" and find personal information about the particular person. Sharing interests, hobbies, work, etc. are all positive things two people may share but the privacy issue arises. Sexual harassment and pictures you dont want to be seen are passed around and it causes a rift in work relationships as seen here (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/681635). Hopefully in the future, people will learn to know when to separate professional and personal lives on the internet. It is a gateway to many intrusions and situations that a person would not want to be in.




http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_socialnetworking.htm

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An ex-myspace user, I always found myspace to be more interesting in terms of profiling. I was always able to personalize my profile and add customized things such as music in the background, html backgrounds, surveys, information, etc. These types of things really taught me to be familiar with html and coding and at the same time get what I wanted from a site. Myspace is a site that where you can get connected to old friends, meet new friends, and connect with celebrities.
As a current facebook user, you can have old friends, new friends, and various connections but the customization part of it is gone. I miss being able to personalize a page so that others can be a part of me.

Blogs vs Wikis

Blogs are a place where anyone in the world can set up a topic and freely talk about it and share with the world. The last few years have been an increasing rise in blog use and places like PerezHilton, Mediatakeout, and Gawker are prime examples of that. Wiki's are a different in that they are a collaboration of information people can contribute. A wiki a company may have becomes helpful in gathering and managing their own knowledge, making it much easier for employees to access. As quoted, "a software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online documents—so that each team member could contribute and access up-to-date information on the project".

Today's world is so technology driven that anything new media provides is one step closer to gaining more knowledge. Stated above is how wikis are used in collaboration but blogs are different. Usually to contribute to a blog the person would need to add their comment, but they wouldn't have the same administrator rights as the blog owner.


cited:
"http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/26280
/celebrity_blogs_the_impact_of_new_media.html"


"http://www.cio.com/article/336818
/More_on_How_to_Build_Your_Own_Wikipedia"