Social Networking

http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/myspaceforschool
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/what-makes-social-networking-websites-so-popular-386451.html
Social networking started in 1985 when The WELL began to bring communities together by creating chat rooms to share personal information with each other. Social networking focused on personal homepages that gave personal information for their viewers and broadened social communication. Now days MySpace and Facebook are the fastest growing networking companies today. Some negative effects that social networking has had is, identity theft and more and more teenagers have been using these sites and can be dangerous. These social networking systems are helpful in many ways, such as creating your own community of friends or family and this creates a simple way of talking with each other. Also these sites such as Facebook, MySpace, or Bebo are free to use which makes these social networking sites popular. Social Networking can be useful for teachers because they can create an online discussion that people can participate in and open the minds for communicating. Also teachers can produce ways that they can allow students to communicate outside of the classroom to produce communication between a particular group, or school. I think that a teacher has minimal use from these social networking services because teachers don’t have the time to keep up with all the demands that these sites need. I think that a personal quote or a weekly discussion that the students can participate in is all that a teacher can realistically do with a site like this.