Social networks are used in many different ways by many different groups of people. Some may use it for job recruiting, such as the site "LinkedIn." In an article written by Frank Langfitt on NPR, he states, "LinkedIn says users include executives from all of the Fortune 500 companies. Typing keywords into a search engine, Crawford can scrape the entire network to dig out high-quality candidates that she can't find elsewhere."
Others have used social media to stay connected to distant friends and family members.Social networking has made it easier for families, that are separated by oceans, to stay in touch with each other. However, this has created a laziness in people to no longer make the effort to go see your friend down the street. People don't even feel the need to converse with someone they consider themselves close to, because they all ready know about their lives by what they post on Facebook. Virginia Heffernan, from the New York Times Magazine in an article titled, "Facebook Exodus," was discussing Facebook with her friend when she said, "I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies, because I rarely directly contacted them."
So social networks have their positives and negatives, but hopefully in the future we will learn how to only use them for the positives. Perhaps Facebook will limit the amount of time you are allowed to be logged in. Or maybe you will only be allowed to "stalk" someone for so long until you no longer have access to their page for a certain amount time.
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