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Blog social networking has become quintessential in today's world in both corporate/business and personal life of people. Social networking was initially introduced for the purpose of communicating with people or long lost friends but as time went on people started to recognize the power and influence of social media which led to its exponential growth and at the same time a darker side of social media was also brewing. Social networking helps people connect to a wide array of individuals and if used properly can help a person obtain a job. " One of Crawford-Hentz's favorite sites is  Linkedin , a network of 8 million professionals spread across the world. Linkedin says users include executives from all of the Fortune 500 companies. Typing keywords into a search engine, Crawford can scrape the entire network to dig out high-quality candidates that she can't find elsewhere."(Social) Linkedin is the most famous website used when it comes to profiling a individual ba...

Blogs and Wikis are two interesting tools that we use to communicate for our daily usage. Blogs tend to be more personalized and is often used as almost a modern day personal online diary. Blogs more or less represent a brand. A lot of companies also have blogs where they post information about something upcoming and or some promotion(Cook). A blog is like the soul of person but on the internet and visible to everyone. A wiki is more of an encyclopedia. It is a process of accumulating and maintaining information (Difference). It is a collaborative work between various groups of people. A wiki helps in collecting and sorting out information related to specific topic. It's like a never-ending cycle where you could go from one place to another on a wiki. In today's world convergence has become a important aspect especially in the social media world. Companies such as Facebook buying Instagram and Whatsapp shows how important it is for companies and people to know where the informa...

 I remember using Facebook as a 10 year old kid by using a fake date of birth. At the time it was crazy to me something like Facebook existed, but as time went by the growth of Facebook and its' influence has always surprised me. For this research paper I would focus on Facebook and the impact it has had in our society from various perspectives such as economical, sociological, technological and moral perspectives. I will discuss the positives and negatives from each perspective. I will also provide examples of the influence Facebook has had over us as a society from each perspective. I will end my paper with my final analysis on how Facebook has impacted us and what the future of Facebook will be.