Blog Social Networking

     There are many ways to use blog social networking to your advantage. One of these ways is to use the platform to further deepen your portfolio for a job. Especially in fields like marketing, having the ability to maintain a social networking platform will be very beneficial. One unique benefit to using blog social networking is being updated in real time of any situation. For a a skin repair surgery, the staff updated the surgery status hourly for the parents (Parker-Pope, 2009). The parents didn't have to wait to hear about the status of the surgery till the end. This eliminates a lot of the burden of worrying since the parents were constantly updated in real time. These technologies definitely have a 'dark side' due to the fact that people can post about anything. This can result in some negative reactions or comments. An example can be seen in this when a politician disregarded President Obama's speech as boring and that he would rather watch sports (Stanley, 2009). His office had to release a disclaimer to ignore that tweet. There should be regulations with what people can post onto these social networking platforms, but to what extent. It's hard to determine what can or can't be said since opinions are always changing and there's always that interpretation of what freedom of speech really is. These technologies might evolve in terms of how posts are viewed, but the principal will stay the same. People will always post their thoughts, but it can may be viewed on your glasses or contact lenses when the physical technology progresses.

Citations

"Tweeting From the Operating Room" by Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, July 9, 2009. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/tweeting-from-the-operating-room/

"What Are You Doing? Media Twitterers Can’t Stop Typing" by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, February 28, 2009, p. C1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/arts/television/28twit.html

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