Should You Know What Social Networking is?
If
by now you have not heard of MySpace or Friendster then maybe the world
is moving too slowly for you. Young adults (teens and college age
adults) are using the world of the internet to communicate in ways we
had no inkling of a few years ago.
Social networking is booming as young adults find one another online to
chat, post comments, post photos, and share info about the latest
happenings in their world to their MySpace pages and Friendster
networking sites. It is not always a good thing for sure, but more on
that later on.
So how does it work? Well some genius thought up the concept of MySpace,
which is basically a free bulletin board for anyone (not just teens) to
create a web site that is all about networking and communicating with
friends and creating new friends too. Users create a free account, enter
information about themselves, in as much or little detail as they want.
They then share their site with their friends. Their friends can then
post comments on the MySpace. It becomes a great big bulletin board of
social interaction. The kids are glued to these things and seem to know
how to find one another and chase down the latest hot info in a
heartbeat.
So what does this mean to communication in the Internet age for teens
and young adults? It puts a fancier face on the outpouring of
information exchange between teens.
It used to be that only the geeky teens had web pages about themselves.
They were the only ones who knew how to build them. Now with these easy
to use tools at their disposal every teen or young adult can have a
site. That means connections and networking spreads very fast.