[Writer's Name]

[Supervisor's Name]

[Subject]

[Date]

Social Network and Privacy

Introduction

The world is gradually turning into a digital sphere and reality, with every passing day. It seems as if the whole world and its domains are being run and controlled via the binary digits of the computer networks. The dynamics have drastically changed not only of the technology, over time, but also with respect to the social sphere of the mankind. What earlier used to be the face to face conversation and warm personal engagements, have changed into more of a digital interaction and interface, and have made the modes of communication and contact far more convenient and technology oriented.

Gone are those days when the socializing would be on a predetermined designated day, or the letter or message would take days or weeks to get from one person to another. Now, both socializing and message delivery is just a click away.

Social Networking

Interestingly, the literal meaning of social network denotes the network relished by a person comprising of his peers, friends, or other private contacts. However, in today's modern and technical world, the term social networking, strike to mind the numerous online communities that have emerged over time, which enable the interactions and socializing between friends and communities, sharing common interest, feasible with help of a technological platform.

Types of Social Networking Sites and Their Specs

As discussed earlier, over time numerous social networking sites have emerged over time. Interestingly, most of the site apart from serving the purpose of socializing, serve other purposes too. Such as, entertainment, helping young entrepreneurs establish their business, via creation of just a page, purpose of leisure via different online games, sharing of music or video and much more. A few online social networking sites are facebook, Badoo, Twitter, myLife, LinkedIn, Orkut, MySpace, Google Plus+, and many more (Stefanone, et.al, p. 41).

Benefits of These Social Networking Sites

A few of the benefits which these networking sites render to their users have been mentioned earlier. Primarily, the biggest benefit that these networking sites entail is, undoubtedly with respect to the phenomenon of socializing, interacting, and managing to broaden one's social network by getting introduced to new people. These social networking sites have enabled the people to talk and interact with their loved ones who are even oceans apart. Sharing of photographs of the memorable and fun times spent together, as well as enabling them to post video, share blogs and articles from other sources, are also amongst the benefits relished by their users (Pelling & Katherine, p. 755).

Moreover, there is a lot more than just socializing, what these sites offer. As mentioned earlier, over time there have been numerous cases of various individuals, who have successfully started their entrepreneurial endeavours, with the assistance of these social networking sites, specially facebook, to initiate their professional interest without incurring any cost, and now most of them have been successful in consolidating and establishing their business to a significant extent and are in a position to enable themselves to earn ...