Blog #12- Social networking vs networking

I agree with boyd and ellison’s difference between social networking sites and networking. Facebook was created because people wanted to know what their friends were up to not so people could look for strangers. Like Will I mainly use SNS to keep in contact with family and friends but SNS are becoming more and more popular when people are looking for something (like relationships) or when people have something to give (housing, cars, etc). I have stumbled upon many facebook pages which advertise things like shopping sites and houses for rent. SNS have made it so much easier to keep in contact with people especially the new facebook with the facebook chat option. If someone feels uncomfortable having their personal information on their profile they can set it to private or having nothing on it at all and simply use it to chat and share pictures with friends and families. SNS have made it easier to multitask as well. You can be messaging with multiple friends at a time.