Social Network: The Effects On Future

 Social network is a tool used by people around the world. The aim is to encourage and to assist communication between person. However, this type of technology may be doing more harm than good in the coming years. It's not only changed the way we communicate, but also how we interact with each other everyday. There is the issue in which sound - "With the rise of sites like Facebook, the social network may be on verge of replacing traditional interaction for the next generation". The way we used to interact will be at risk if we do not realize the consequence of social media. The social networks affect our lives in many ways - communication, self-expression, cyber bullying, isolation, friendship and also the sense of humanity in ourselves.

Vision on what might be of social network in future.

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter were created for the sole purpose of helping individuals to communicate easily. Many people use these sites to talk to their friends in other cities, states and even other continents of Earth.These networks not only allow communication between friends, but also allow you to meet new people. Similarities and common friends will create a new bonds. This allow one's social circle to become bigger, to expand. If you ask around on how people think social networking affects them, many will say that they "have an expanded circle of social connections, and stay in touch more frequents." (Source: PC Magazine Online). These networks are becoming the modern way of making friends and living life. These new people we met communicate and interect through these social sites. However, standard communication is not the only way this social technology is used.

It is simply an organization that has affected the way people interact today. It is apparent that Facebook has such an eminent control over its users; nevertheless it is the user who must determine on how they are going to use it - good or bad.

Together, yet further apart.

Facebook and Twitter, for example, are the channels where customers expect to be able to reach out and get responses from enterprises. As enterprises begin active engagement, the user will realize that not all problems can be solved through these. Twitter for instance, due to limited characters input. However, there will be scenarios where problems are addressed directly through Facebook via chat or private message, especially given Facebook's incorporation of the HTTP Secure protocol. By the end of 2012, many enterprises will get this and will have embarked on new strategies for different social media sites.

Social Network Goes To School

At New Milford High School in New Jersey, the school's official Facebook page keeps its 1100 fans updated on sports event and academic achivements. Students who travelled to Europe this spring for a tour of Holocaust sites blogged daily about their experiences and received comments from all over the world. Other students have used the video voice service Skype to talk to their peers in states like Iowa for school projects.

For Principal Eric C. Sheninger, the micro-blogging tool, Twitter has become his mainstay for professional development as well as school promotion. Through Twitter contacts, he formed a partnership with a company that donated technology equipment and training to the school, and he linked up with CBS News, which brought national exposure to the high school's program.

"I used to be the administrator that blocked every social-media sites, and now I'm the biggest champion." Sheninger says. "I'm just someone who's passionate about engaging students and growing professionally, and I'm using these free tools to do it."

In some schools, social network has changed the way educators teach and students learn, says Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, the 21st-century-learning specialist at the private, K-8 Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville. In January 2009, Tolisano launched her "Around the World With 80 Schools" project. The goal was to introduce her school's students to peers in countries around the globe. She build a social-networking site using Ning for teachers from all countries who wanted to participate, eventually attracting 300 members. Tolisano says she sets up a meeting between classes using Skype. Students prepare a list of questions - What's the weather like there? How big is your town? What continent are you on? And chat with the students in Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Spain among a long list of others.

Steven W. Anderson, an instructional technologist at Clemmons Middle School in the 52000 students Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system in North Carolina, says social networking is revolutionizing the way teachers improve their skills. "In the past, professional development has been so formal and rigid. You go to these events scheduled by the district because this is what they think you need," says Anderson,a an EdChat moderator. "With social network allowing teachers to connect one-to-one and one-to-many, they have the professional development that they really desire."

In fact, most social networking sites like Facebook and Ning require users to be at least 13 to participate. That's why private wikis or blogs or other social networking tools designed for school use can often be more beneficial in such situations, says Terrell, the teacher and blogger. For example, she often uses a tool called VoiceThread with even her youngest students. That free service allows users to leave voice comments about pictures, video or drawings, and it enables users to doodle or draw on the screen as they comment. Terrell says fears about how to proceed with social networking sites and tools should not prevent educators from using them.

"If you don't take that golden opportunity to teach students about the responsibility of using these thing, you lose a teachable moment," she says. "If schools block them, they're preventing students from learning the skills they need to know."

An education through social network.