Social Networking

Social networking, has dominated in our lives. In the corporate world, in our personal lives, we use some kind social networking on a day to day basis, and for some people, its impossible to live without. Facebook, twitter, instagram, and snapchat are just a couple of technologies used today in social networking, and will continue to vastly dominate the realm of media and communication. These technologies bring numerous benefits to our society. Whether we want to text, call, or even video chat with someone, its available at our fingertips. People we have not seen for days, months, even years, can be messaged through a few clicks. Entertainment can be taken wherever we go, and we can collaborate on new ideas and expand the realm of thought.

But are these social networking technologies always working in harmony with our lives? Not all the time. Indeed, there have been plenty of cases where victims have been bullied and people have been scammed, all on these networking platforms. In an article written by NBC2, "Multi-Million dollar scam being used on facebook", demonstrates just one case in which a victim is scammed of buying an automobile. "27000 complaints....costing victims over $54 million". Users are not, and have been, taking advantage of social networking and making it a place of fraudulent theft and scamming.

The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote an article, "They're Back and They're Bad, Campus Gossip Web-Sites", where several college students are being bullied and labeled disgusting terms, that no mother would want to hear about their daughter. Social networking is a tremendous technology enabling us to take advantage of every aspect of communication, but also has a dark side, where people are taken advantage of, privacy rights are diminished, and people are given false information. In the future, I believe many more benefits will come to play, as well as more ways it can be exploited for misuse. Newer platforms will arise along with different purposes, and we can just hope that users such as us, make the best use out of it.

References:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/theyre-backtheyre-bad-/48220
https://www.nbc-2.com/story/38062070/nbc2-investigators-multi-million-dollar-scam-being-used-on-facebook