Jack
DiLorenzo
Critical Analysis of Social
Networking
Facebook, MySpace, and Google+ are
all huge parts of technology in not only your online social life, but your real
life also. These social networks are helpful for many aspects of your life but
can also be very harmful. For example, Facebook can entertain you and connect
you with your other friends but it can also diminish your success in finding a
job or applying to college. Since Facebook’s conception in 2004, it’s faced
countless accusations of violating a user’s account privacy. Facebook can sell
your private information to companies and many people believe that’s wrong, but
at the same time it’s still the most popular social networking site in the
world. This shows how successful and useful Facebook is.
Facebook was recently put on the
stock market and so far it’s doing pretty decent. People may wonder how
Facebook can even make money since it promised it would never charge you for
membership, and Facebook makes a lot of its money off of advertising. The other
way it makes money is by selling your private information to future employers
or colleges. This is a very negative aspect of Facebook but it makes the
company very rich. A user of Facebook can also use the site for advertising their
own business. Facebook is a successful business model with some shady practices
and the user can use Facebook for business also.
The main use for Facebook is
obviously socially. Facebook innovated the world of social networking creating
features imitated by other sites like chatting, tagging people, newsfeeds, and
very detailed profiles. Facebook should be the ideal model of what a social networking
site should be. Its user base is also ridiculous with a 1.15 billion users. Most
of the people you know are probably already on Facebook and those who aren’t
were probably on it at one point in the past. Despite that, with many new
social networking sites coming in like Twitter, Facebook may lose its place as the
most popular site. People aren’t using Facebook as much as they used to because
it got boring and there are more sites out there that are different and more
fun to use.
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