Social and Professional Networking Technological advances have provided multiple
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Question
Social and Professional Networking
Technological advances have provided multiple opportunities for people to build almost endless networks of contacts for almost unlimited types of social and professional purposes. There are sites that link job seekers, professionals seeking to build a client base, high school classmates, homeschool families, and even Kaplan University programs and club members. But, other than bragging rights to a grand total of online friends and contacts, what are the benefits of using social media?
Discussion topic
On how many social or professional media sites are you an active member?
How much time would you say you spend on social media sites in a week?
Would you say the benefits of using social and professional networking sites are worth the time spent making and maintaining those relationships?
How could you evaluate the strength of relationships made through social and professional networking sites?
What are the potential negative outcomes from using social or professional networking sites?
Note: If you are not a member of any social or professional media site, explain why you don’t participate in this form of networking. Then, answer the last three questions in the Discussion topic.
Explanation / Answer
Social Networking sites are like mandatory part of most of people life and especially youth and with smart phone available it will accessed whole day long and yes it helps keep connected even to the people whom you don’t have chance to meet but can talk on these sites and see what's going around. It provides a good way of sharing information of what's happening around life and keep us digitized. You can reach out multiple people with one single message rather than going to individual and ask. Similarly professional sites are making it easier to be connected to people of your own area of work and you get to know trending technologies, and it’s easier to search a job and be approached by companies. I believe if we consider a week's time then about on average 70% of time goes on these sites, social networking having more weightage.