Social Networking (Part-V)- Cons Of Social Media Badly Affecting Human Lifestyle

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Know About The Cons Of Social Networking Sites Affecting Our Normal LifeStyle

Here we continue with the last part of our blog on social networking. Those who have missed our fourth blog can read it from Here. It will help to connect with the last part of the blog discussing about the cons of social networking sites which in turn is affecting the normal lifestyle of mankind. Let us explore the blog to find out in more details. 

Technological advancements have gifted mankind with numerous products for the betterment of their lifestyle but everything has its own pros and cons. The same theory is also applicable to social networking sites or social media but it is entirely in our hand whether we adopt its positive or negative side. We often become victims of the negative sides unconsciously which lead to disastrous consequences in our normal and happy life. In our previous blog we emphasized on the positive sides of social networks which have opened a new doorway for advertisement or promotion of any profession and business, now popularly known as Social Promotion. Social promotion has emerged to be one of the leading marketing strategy which can provide huge boost to any profession or business as it helps to reach the most preferred and targeted audience for your business or profession very easily with few clicks. But on the other hand the negative sides of social media is badly affecting the normal lifestyle of mankind. The curse of technology is that now even a kid is handling mobile, computers and tabs with internet facilities and they are diving deep into the world of social media without even consent of their parents. Not only to blame the kids, but teenager, young and adult of every age have more or less become addicted to social media and it is an undeniable fact that social networking is badly addictive. Once people fall for this addiction, they are wasting maximum time of their day spending in different social media sites thus hampering their daily life and normal lifestyle. Making friendship with  completely unknown people and talking with them gives an exciting feeling as well as fun but sometimes these so-called social friendships are proving fatal for many people. People of all age are becoming victims with the kids and teenagers worse affected. An open social networking platform invites many rogue, fake and ill-minded people with dirty intentions and it is really impossible to judge someone just by talking and seeing some pictures of that person over social media. They will present themselves in the best way to avoid any doubt in our mind about them and with time compelling us to meet face to face. Many people fall in love over social media just by talking and seeing pictures and mostly end up with disastrous consequences like cheat, fraud, launder, harassment and abuse. Social networks is increasing depression, anxiety and loneliness among people as they are more inclined to their social friends rather than their real-life friends. People are becoming mechanized and unsocial and they prefer to stick to social networking friends sitting at home rather than going out and spending some time with real-life friends. This in turn is increasing the distance among close people, friends and families. The work output of people of all age is greatly deteriorating as people are spending more time in social media even while they are in their workplaces. Social media is gradually increasing the distance among real friends, colleagues and families in exchange of the peoples whom you have never met and are trying to represent their best personality and image in social sites to deceive others. Family and relationship problems are in great rise for the people who spend their maximum time over social media. Kinds and teenagers are getting wrong ideology from social media as they have become more a platform of hatred, abuse, discrimination and many other anti-social things rather than for which it was created. Some ill minded people are making money from social media in different ways like by downloading pictures from different social media profiles and selling them to pornographic sites without even the knowledge of the individual whose images have been misused or by deceiving individual with false promises and looting them. Some people are using social media to spread hatred, abuse, riots and violence by misguiding other people, hiding in their own home and sometimes faking their identity or putting the blame on others. Thus the current scenario is that social media are causing great turbulence in our normal and happy lifestyle by filling them more with negativity rather than a single bit of positive attitude. The cyber-security cells of all country have become greatly active to prevent such negativity and any misuse of social networking sites.

These things do not indicate that we should completely stop using social media. In many cases social media is helping to reunite with long lost friends, families and relationships which have discontinued because of increasing distances. Everything will have its negative side but it solely depends on us whether we want to accept its positive or negative side. Social media is a great source of refreshment and fun now-a-days but it should be used wisely and cautiously. Kids and teenagers should strictly be not allowed to get in touch with social media before they turned 18 years of age. For adults using social media. they are quite mature and sensible enough not to get addicted to such things. Our mature thinking, analysis, cautious and responsible use can make social media a fun, interesting and better place than it is now. We cannot control the negativity but we must be aware enough to keep a huge distance from those negativity and be a responsible social media user for normal and happy lifestyle.

Social Networking (Part-IV)- Pros Of Social Media In Any Profession And Business

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Find Out The Pros Of Social Media To Mankind

Now we continue with the fourth part of our blog on social networking. Those who have missed our third blog can read it from Here. It will help to connect with the fourth part of the blog discussing about the pros of social networking to mankind. Let us explore the blog to find out in more details. 

Social Networking or social media has become one of the most popular and emerging trend in the world of internet over past few years. Numerous social networking sites have emerged with their own unique features to provide users with amazing social media experiences. Orkut started as one of the first social networking site of its kind which gained immensely popularity for many years and with time it was replaced by the present social media giant Facebook. Facebook as a social networking site has become the part and parcel of almost every human being and they cannot live a single day without spending enough time over Facebook. Facebook emerged to be the social networking giant due to its extraordinary features which gained popularity among users causing a massive transition in the type of social networking experience started with Orkut. Other popular social networks have also emerged with time like Twitter, Linkedin, Google Plus, Instagram etc which have provided users with their own unique features. But Facebook occupied the maximum market of social networking due to their broadest interaction and communication platform. Twitter on the other hand provides very limited interaction and communication and is mostly popular among celebrities and renowned personalities. Linkedin provides a business and employment oriented social networking. Google Plus provides a overall social networking experience while Instagram provides a photo and video sharing based social networking. Thus every social networking platforms are unique in their own kind and are great sources to reach  the broadest possible audiences.

Social promotions have emerged to be one of the leading technique over past few years to expand any profession and business in a wider range by reaching maximum number of targeted audiences. It has become the best way to gain broad visibility of any profession and business and doing in proper way can lead to huge prosperity in the respective fields. Almost every people now-a-days are engaged to one or more than one social networking platforms and thus social media can be used for highlighting the selling points of any profession and business based on the need of the users. Social promotion using social networking sites can be done in both free and paid way. The free way requires much effort in promotion while the paid way requires money but it saves lot of efforts. Free social promotion can be done using Facebook by creating a respective professional or business page and you can earn likes and permanent followers to your page by inviting people from your friend list to the page, sharing the page and the updates posted in the page in your own timeline, different large and active groups related to respective business or profession and in other pages. Twitter and Linkedin promotion on the other hand can be done by creating pages and sharing the updates daily on your profile and others. Google Plus promotion can be done similar to that of Facebook by creating pages, gain followers, sharing updates on different big and active communities relevant to the business or profession for which the page is made. This self promotion at zero cost offers better visibility and outreach but the major consequences are- tiring process, chances of spamming and account suspension and reaching less number of targeted audiences and more number of irrelevant audiences. These consequences have been overcome in the paid promotions. All the social networks provides their own platform for advertisement related to any profession or business and their advance artificial intelligence systems help to reach the targeted and most suitable audiences for the respective profession and business. These advertisement appears in the profile of the users who can be your best probable audience based on the criteria filled up during promotion. The daily budget and total number of days to run the promotion are flexible enough and can be adjusted according to need. The plans and pricing varies for different social networks with Facebook giving the most flexible plans and pricing. Thus social promotion is the main pros of social networking and the best social promotion strategy should be a mixed combination of free and paid promotion. While in paid promotion there is no worry as artificial intelligence do the rest of the things but in free promotion special care must be taken to prevent spamming and more effort have to be put to reach targeted audiences. 

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Social Networking (Part-III)- Emerging Trends Of Social Networking

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Know About The Current Emerging Trends in Social Networking

Here we continue with the third part of our blog on social networking. Those who have missed our second blog can read it from Here. It will help to connect with the third part of the blog discussing about the emerging trends of social networking. Let us explore the blog to find out in more details. Quotes of Hilary Mason, chief data scientist, bitly, VentureBeat: 

"The things you share are things that make you look good, things which you are happy to tie into your identity".

While the popularity of social networking consistently rises, new uses for the technology are frequently being observed. Today's technologically savvy population requires convenient solutions to their daily needs. At the forefront of emerging trends in social networking sites is the concept of "real-time web" and "location-based". Real-time allows users to contribute contents, which is then broadcast as it is being uploaded—the concept is analogous to live radio and television broadcasts. Twitter set the trend for "real-time" services, wherein users can broadcast to the world what they are doing, or what is on their minds within a 140-character limit. Facebook followed suit with their "Live Feed" where users' activities are streamed as soon as it happens. While Twitter focuses on words, Clixtr, another real-time service, focuses on group photo sharing wherein users can update their photo streams with photos while at an event. Facebook, however, remains the largest photo sharing site—Facebook application and photo aggregator Pixable estimates that Facebook will have 100 billion photos by Summer 2012. In April 2012, the image-based social media network Pinterest had become the third largest social network in the United States. Companies have begun to merge business technologies and solutions, such as cloud computing, with social networking concepts. Instead of connecting individuals based on social interest, companies are developing interactive communities that connect individuals based on shared business needs or experiences. Many provide specialized networking tools and applications that can be accessed via their websites, such as LinkedIn. Others companies, such as Monster.com, have been steadily developing a more "socialized" feel to their career centre sites to harness some of the power of social networking sites. These more business related sites have their own nomenclature for the most part but the most common naming conventions are "Vocational Networking Sites" or "Vocational Media Networks", with the former more closely tied to individual networking relationships based on social networking principles.

Foursquare gained popularity as it allowed for users to check into places that they are frequenting at that moment. Gowalla is another such service that functions in much the same way that Foursquare does, leveraging the GPS in phones to create a location-based user experience. Clixtr, though in the real-time space, is also a location-based social networking site, since events created by users are automatically geotagged, and users can view events occurring nearby through the Clixtr iPhone app. Recently, Yelp announced its entrance into the location-based social networking space through check-ins with their mobile app; whether or not this becomes detrimental to Foursquare or Gowalla is yet to be seen, as it is still considered a new space in the Internet technology industry. Foursquare gained popularity as it allowed for users to check into places that they are frequenting at that moment. Gowalla is another such service that functions in much the same way that Foursquare does, leveraging the GPS in phones to create a location-based user experience. Clixtr, though in the real-time space, is also a location-based social networking site, since events created by users are automatically geotagged, and users can view events occurring nearby through the Clixtr iPhone app. Recently, Yelp announced its entrance into the location-based social networking space through check-ins with their mobile app; whether or not this becomes detrimental to Foursquare or Gowalla is yet to be seen, as it is still considered a new space in the Internet technology industry.

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