The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Social Networking

social networking

A social network service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities.
(Social networks) A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or
The use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself
(The Social Network) The Social Network is an upcoming 2010 drama film directed by David Fincher about the founding of the social networking website Facebook.

disadvantages

(disadvantage) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
An unfavorable circumstance or condition that reduces the chances of success or effectiveness
(Disadvantage) In policy debate, a disadvantage (abbreviated as DA, and sometimes referred to as a Disad) is an argument that a team brings up against a policy action that is being considered.
(disadvantage) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; “This rule clearly disadvantages me”

advantages

A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position
The opportunity to gain something; benefit or profit
give an advantage to; “This system advantages the rich”
(advantage) (tennis) first point scored after deuce
A favorable or desirable circumstance or feature; a benefit
(advantage) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; “the experience gave him the advantage over me”

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Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning (Essential Tools Resource)

A how-to resource for incorporating social media into training
Whether you work in a traditional or virtual classroom, social media can broaden your reach and increase the impact of training. In Social Media for Trainers, e-learning and new media expert Jane Bozarth provides an overview of popular tools, including blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, and others. You’ll learn to leverage each medium’s unique features and applications to deliver training, facilitate discussions, and extend learning beyond the confines of a training event. This key resource offers a new set of powerful tools for augmenting and enhancing the value of your training.
PRAISE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TRAINERS
“Clear explanations and practical examples of the use of social media for learning, make this book essential reading for all workplace trainers.”
—Jane Hart, founder, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, and founding member of the Internet Time Alliance
“… a practical, intelligent book teaching trainers how to effectively utilize technology for real learning outcomes.”
—Karl Kapp, professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University and author of Learning in 3D and Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning
“Trainers who want to succeed in the new social learning world should read this book. Jane has made social media easy, practical, and simple to use.”
—Ray Jimenez, PhD, Chief Learning Architect, VignettesLearning.com

Social Networked Everything!

My design for Socially Networking all of your crap! Taking social networking to the next level.

Social network interconnection, First draft

A first draft of my social network interconnection map. Need to work on it more

the advantages and disadvantages of social networking

The term “peer-to-peer” has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems’ technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users.
While this book is mostly about the technical promise of peer-to-peer, we also talk about its exciting social promise. Communities have been forming on the Internet for a long time, but they have been limited by the flat interactive qualities of email and Network newsgroups. People can exchange recommendations and ideas over these media, but have great difficulty commenting on each other’s postings, structuring information, performing searches, or creating summaries. If tools provided ways to organize information intelligently, and if each person could serve up his or her own data and retrieve others’ data, the possibilities for collaboration would take off. Peer-to-peer technologies along with metadata could enhance almost any group of people who share an interest–technical, cultural, political, medical, you name it.
This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they’ve faced, and the technical solutions they’ve found. Learn here the essentials of peer-to-peer from leaders of the field:
Nelson Minar and Marc Hedlund of target=”new”>Popular Power, on a history of peer-to-peer
Clay Shirky of acceleratorgroup, on where peer-to-peer is likely to be headed
Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly & Associates, on redefining the public’s perceptions
Dan Bricklin, cocreator of Visicalc, on harvesting information from end-users
David Anderson of SETI@home, on how SETI@Home created the world’s largest computer
Jeremie Miller of Jabber, on the Internet as a collection of conversations
Gene Kan of Gnutella and GoneSilent.com, on lessons from Gnutella for peer-to-peer technologies
Adam Langley of Freenet, on Freenet’s present and upcoming architecture
Alan Brown of Red Rover, on a deliberately low-tech content distribution system
Marc Waldman, Lorrie Cranor, and Avi Rubin of AT&T Labs, on the Publius project and trust in distributed systems
Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, and David Molnar of Free Haven, on resource allocation and accountability in distributed systems
Rael Dornfest of O’Reilly Network and Dan Brickley of ILRT/RDF Web, on metadata
Theodore Hong of Freenet, on performance
Richard Lethin of Reputation Technologies, on how reputation can be built online
Jon Udell of BYTE and Nimisha Asthagiri and Walter Tuvell of Groove Networks, on security
Brandon Wiley of Freenet, on gateways between peer-to-peer systems
You’ll find information on the latest and greatest systems as well as upcoming efforts in this book.

Peer-to-Peer is a book about an emerging idea. That idea is that the traditional model of participating in the Internet, in which a small computer operated by an everyday user (a “client”) asks for and receives information from a big computer administered by a corporation or other large entity (a “server”), is beginning to give some ground to a new (new to the fringes of the Internet, anyway) model called peer-to-peer networking. In peer-to-peer networking, all participants in a network are approximately equal. Furthermore, the participants are usually ordinary computers run by everyday people. The ICQ chat service and the Napster music-sharing community are examples of what this book is about.
The chief advantage of peer-to-peer networks is that large numbers of people share the burden of providing computing resources (processor time and disk space), administration effort, creativity, and–in more than a few cases–legal liability. Furthermore, it’s relatively easy to be anonymous in such an environment, and it’s harder for opponents of your peer-to-peer service to bring it down. The primary disadvantage of peer-to-peer systems, as anyone will attest who’s had an MP3 download prematurely terminated when a dialup user went offline will attest, is the tendency of computers at the edge of the network to fade in and out of availability. Accountability for the actions of network participants is a potential problem, too.
This is a book about the idea of equipping ordinary Internet users’ computers with mechanisms that enable them to connect, more or less automatically and without human attention, to other everyday Internet users’ machines. By forming networks of computers at the so-called “edge” of the Internet, it’s possible to offer valuable services without the burden of building and administering large, centralized computer systems of the sort that host traditional Web sites. Napster is the most successful example to date, though nerds will note that it’s not a completely peer-to-peer system because users register their file libraries with a central server when they log on to the service.
Don’t approach this book expecting to learn how to build the next Napster system. It’s not a how-to book. It’s not even much of a why-to book. Rather, it’s a book that aims to get its readers thinking about what happens when information systems shift away from the client-server model and toward the peer-to-peer model (that’s one of the book’s points, by the way, that this is not a one-or-the-other architectural decision).
Mostly, Peer-to-Peer makes its point by letting experts in peer-to-peer take turns in the spotlight. Any other approach would be kind of ironic, wouldn’t it? In any case, David Anderson explains how SETI@home puts space buffs’ idle computing cycles to use in analyzing radio noise from outer space. Gene Kan explains how Gnutella (a truly serverless environment) works. The architects of Publius explain how distributed computing is especially resistant to censorship and denial-of-service attacks. Other contributors discuss peer-to-peer chat software, anonymous remailing services, and other applications of peer-to-peer design.
There’s no one from Napster represented as an author in this collection of essays, but Clay Shirky presents an essay called “Listening to Napster.” In that essay, Shirky gives an opinion on why Napster has succeeded: It focused on providing something consumers wanted, and bypassed Internet conventions (like the Domain Naming System) because they weren’t the best way to provide the service. This is not an earth-shattering revelation, but it’s true, and it’s something developers of any new service (Internet-based or otherwise) need to keep in mind.
Some of the technical proposals presented here will get readers thinking. An example: Require that senders of e-mail solve a moderately complex math problem before recipients’ mailboxes will accept their mail. The problem would be no big deal for a mailer to solve if he or she were sending messages one at a time, but the processor load would really add up for spammers who blast tens of thousands of unwanted emails onto the Internet in a single session. Another idea: mechanizing the concept of reputation so people know whose thoughts and whose creative works (like software) are worth using or believing.
More business-oriented readers might want to read more about the more subtle ways of incorporating peer-to-peer components into business models. Lots of traditional Web services–Amazon.com is an example–are supplementing their client-server activities with others that have peer-to-peer characteristics. Amazon.com, for example, lets operators of small Web sites promote goods and rely on the centralized resources for billing and fulfillment. There’s no distributed software (other than a few links), but the company takes advantage of creativity and marketing efforts outside of its official core. Coverage of that sort of “soft” distributed computing might be a good supplement for the second edition of this book.
Peer-to-Peer is a thought-provoking book that will help its readers understand an exciting, still-emerging application architecture for the Internet. –David Wall
Topics covered: Peer-to-peer applications that run at the edges of the Internet, usually on home computers run by ordinary people. Much of this book comprises case studies on SETI@home, Gnutella, Freenet, Jabber, and other peer-to-peer services. Later chapters address technical issues, such as accountability, security, efficient use of limited bandwidth, and data cataloging.