Social Networking

Paper Summary:

This paper debates the benefits and limitations of social networking, both from a personal as well as an organizational perspective. It defines social networking and discusses how social networking exemplifies the capabilities of the Internet's development, collaboration and publishing technologies in the development of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other sites that are at the epicenter of social networking today. The paper contains tables and figures.

Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Putting Social Networking into Context
Benefits of Social Networking
Assessing the Limitations of Social Networking
Ethical Issues of Social Networking
Summary

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"Instead of fighting and resisting the major change that social networking brings to communicating, collaborating, sharing and learning, organizations must throw off their preconceptions and pilot these technologies. The life forces in any organization aren't physical assets, its knowledge and the ability to learn as an organization. Social networking is the catalyst, the nurturing agent of this change. Its effects permeate and can improve communications skills between individuals and departments, organizations and even divisions scattered across the globe. To ignore the growth of social networking and its potential contributions to personal, professional and organizational goal attainment is to become myopic and miss the opportunity to be transformed by greater insight and knowledge shared with and gained from others."

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