New Media! - Allysia Sulaiman

The popularity of many of these  social networking sites  started to pick up as I was entering high school. My parents did not grow up with electricity let alone technology for social media, so they did not know what to make of this. Due to their uncertainty about these sites, I never really used them. I made a Facebook in high school for a school program and literally made a Twitter last week for this class. That’s all of the bigger social media accounts that I have. However, there are a few more applications that I have been using in the recent years. I made a  Facebook  account senior year of high school to join the graduating class group to know about all the upcoming events. Ever since then I just use it to read articles on the news, watch videos that are of interest to me and to see what some of my friends post about. I never post anything myself. For me, this site is either seeing some breaking news or seeing what my Aunties are doing. I’ve also reali...

Social networking is using internet-based programs such as, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YELP, to make connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients. Social networking also occurs for social purposes, business purposes or both. As technology has advanced over the last past decades, social networking has expanded on a global level that has truly changed the way that we do things in the world today. These technologies have numerous benefits to society but can also have a negative impact when used improperly. Social networking can be utilized by anyone. Since this platform is technically everywhere, it connects one part of the world to another. Nothing is ever out of reach because of this. So many opportunities are now possible. The job process has been impacted by these advances and is something that I have definitely seen as I have been trying to obtain an internship for this upcoming summer. In Frank Langfitt’s article, “Social Netwo...