Blog Social networking

There are so many ways that we can use social media to help us achieve our goal, especially when everybody else is also using it. We have social media such as Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn where we provide our personal information, so that people can contact you if they are interested in you. According to the article, “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”, LinkedIn provides an opportunity for Crawford to find high-quality candidates to hire. Also, social media simplify the recruiting process. For example, LinkedIn allows us to share our Rolodexes which can save us a lot of time making phone calls or sending emails. I think social media is definitely a great tool when trying to find a job or to recruit people. In my own experience, I have tried the website Indeed when looking for a job and got the job successfully in the end. It was very easy to use as I just needed to upload my resume to the website and send it to the jobs that I am interested in. After a few days, I got an email about setting up an interview with the manager. I didn’t know that getting a job can be this easy before using the social media. I think this is a very helpful tool for both the recruiters and job seekers.

            However, social media can be a bad thing sometimes. According to the article, “They're Back, and They're Bad: Campus-Gossip Web Sites”, the student creates a new online forum also called JuicyCampus for campus gossip after the first one got shut down not long ago. This kind of use of social media produce nothing but negative emotions and support unwanted activities such as cyberbullying and sensitive information leak. I think this is a good example of bad use of social media. Since social media is so popular and easy to set up, it is nearly impossible to stop these people from spreading false and negative information. In addition, there is almost no regulation for this local level of social media as the creator created this with no good intention. From this, we can see that social media can be a bad thing if it is on the wrong hand. Yet, this brings us to the point that if we want our social media to have a positive and open environment, appropriate regulation and laws are necessary for the future.

1.      "They're Back, and They're Bad: Campus-Gossip Web Sites," by Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Sept 4, 2009, p. A20+. Available at: http://chronicle.com/article/Theyre-BackTheyre-B/48220/

2.     Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf