Social Networking



Social Networking

Social media's effect on our ability to communicate and interact is evident throughout all areas of society. The rise in technology has been significantly experienced over the last few years. In this perspective, social media has been consuming the most out of these technologies. Businesses all over the world are in varying, though relatively growing stages of adopting collaboration technologies and social networking (Wright and Hinson, 2009). While affecting the interpersonal communication, social networking sites have become of great use for several kinds of businesses. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have contributed towards a change in society, and the way we live and communicate. They have their advantages and disadvantages, which needs to be keenly observed. With 80 per cent of teen Internet users operating sites of social media, it could be easily concluded that our social lives are having some significant changes. The use of social media requires some unique adaptations, and on the other hand gives us with a completely new way to communicate.

These networking sites enable its users to share and interact with online content, and connect with people who are like-minded. The social networking sites like Facebook and twitter specifically requires some significant changes for its users in the way they communicate. At several sites, the character limit imposition allows its users to use abbreviations that never existed before. This on one hand leads to poor grammar adaptation for a few, and on the other hand allows its users to write concisely and more effectively. Writing has been a private activity in earlier times, whereas now it has emerged as a social way of communication. Before the invention of such tools, people wrote to interact with one person at a time. Now we can approach hundreds of people with only having a ...