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Social Networking has become a huge part of our current society and while it does have a lot of positives for corporations and personal life, it does come with its fair share of negatives. Social networking can be used for corporations by having your own page on Facebook to market your business and also to reach out to people on social networking with advertisements and promotions. Social networking technologies benefit society by allowing the ability to connect more with businesses, social life, and entertainment and information. Facebook has one of the biggest social networks and according to the Chicago Tribune article by Reuters, Facebook search: Facebook adding search feature, it states that "search makes user activity even more relevant to advertisers, and allows greater focus." This explains how searching through a social network allows benefits for advertisers and puts more focus on many things searched. Also according to the article, Social Networking Technology boosts job recruiting by Frank Langfitt, it states that "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever". This goes to show that its helped people find jobs and for companies to find the right people. There is a dark side though to social networking as companies and random people can know too much about you when you want to keep your own privacy and also too much useless information being in our hands. I believe that for the future social networking will only get bigger and find new ways to connect everyone. 
  1. Facebook search: Facebook Adding Search Feature.  Chicago Tribune. January, 15, 2013 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-facebook-01152013,0,4539360.story
  1. Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf

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