Social Networking :

   Pro's, Con's and Advice on best use

    Social networks are websites on which people communicate around the world. You need an e-mail address and a password to register. Social networks were created to improve relationships, but it became a tool of day-to-day life.
    How does it work? In this podcast, Lee Le Fever explains why and how we register in these social networks such as Twitter.
===> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

(Lee Lefever, « Twitter in Plain English », march 2008)

    On private side, social networks extend relationships (family, friends..). We can also post useful information, organize our planning by creating “events”: informing others about our availability. We can use networks to reconnect with friends we may have lost during life.
    On professional side, networks facilitate job findings: we become creative, inspired by the others’ experience. Companies also attract with networks: they can create websites to make advertisements.

    Social networks have not only advantages: as the information posted is visible to all “friends”, there’s a risk of losing control on information... The messages we post can be misinterpreted, or subjects to criticism. Moreover, the people we meet on networks can pretend to be someone else, we will be disappointed when we meet them in real life, or perhaps these people are cyber-bullies.
    
    You should think of how you’ll use networks: is it a communication tool, a way to express your skills?
- Create a professional account separating private/professional life.
- Prefer face-to-face communication: quarrels on networks are more violent than in real, (we can think about what we’ll post, not what we’ll say...)
- Don’t chat with unknown people, only friends: violence on chats is more present than we think.
Internet is a public media which has risks of virus or hacks. Therefore, information must be limited. In this other video, a man is discovering people's lives thanks to hackers...
===> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=349CNlY5-0o

Marine Vanderlekem, 1S1, 10/11/12 (I had posted this once, but it disappeared (bug? mistake from someone?) so I post it a second time.)