Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites: can’t live without them! Can’t live with them! Good thing I didn’t have to register to myspace.com to know what it was all about (basically media and art) or I would scream my frustration to yet again have to remember another password.

Now, let’s talk. What’s your favorite social network? Raise your hand if you dare! I bet you can’t since each has their own use and you kind of need many if not all of them. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if somehow we could blend them all together and have one perfect social network with different parts to be accessed depending on what  you needed it for?  I am sure this will happen one day. Maybe sooner than we think and MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumbler and who knows what else will just be ancient history like the dinosaurs.

But for now, let’s just spread out our lives (our social lives that is) with its ups and downs, interesting or boring stories, pictures, and our states of mind to the hundreds or thousands so called friends that we have in our Facebook account. Personally, I go to Facebook when I need a laugh, need to know what’s going on in my friends lives (please stop boring me with the annoying stories and I really don’t need to know the intimate  details you know you should not be posting anyway, you know who you are) or get the pulse of the world event.

Until last week when were introduced to Twitter via the many articles posted on Blackboard, courtesy of Profesor Weisel, I really did not care for Twitter and thought it was mostly used by celebrities who needed to reassure the world about their existence and whereabouts. That’s why when some of my friends had asked me to follow them on Twitter via Facebook, I found it hilarious and so ridiculous. Aren’t we getting to know everything about your social life through Facebook anyway? Why, oh why do I need to follow you on Twitter? I already get any and all insignificant updates of your life from Facebook. So, I was very surprised to know that one could Tweet their way to a job, companies used it to better customer service and the possibilities where endless. Who knew?

But let’s not forget LinkedIn, one of the most important Social Networks since you can actually grow with it, post all your academics and professional accomplishments which can land you a job even without searching for it. I learned the other day that companies looked through this free networking system that is LinkedIn to find the best employee based on the compatibility of the company to the person’s account.  Interesting, right? To me it means that someone can save me from a boring job by proposing me a new environment based on my aptitudes. Maybe I could enjoy it for a long time, maybe I could make a career about something I care about, right?