Social Media
Sheila Mcgehee
HUM/186
Feb 09
Leigh Pethe

Social Media

The advantage of having obtainable information easily. One is all business goes through the internet it’s world wide, even though we have easy access to the internet, doesn’t mean there aren’t advantages, there are many but they also need to be able to further their sources. Now a days the internet is so mobile we even can get it on our cell phones so wherever we go it can go with us. We can communicate with emails, we also have twitter, Facebook, blogs there are so many ways to obtain our information at all times. The biggest advantage would have to be expediency where people can be where ever and still be able to hear the news, music, talk on phone. Communication services students. A disadvantage is when critical or sensitive information is available and it shouldn’t be. Meaning of this is example: just like one of our troops had been hurt or got killed we wouldn’t want this kind of news to get out before the family knew. This would be devastating. What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media? Some people have done well with themselves in their businesses, because the core elements of the internet is connecting and engaging. Computers have done wonders for our media social, in so many ways it has been used and continues to get stronger people rely on our technology since it’s our way of communicating in all ways there is so much but there that we can learn from and be able to communicate with others, then are so many different types of social media we have social networking, game worlds, social words, blogs, these are all ways of media blogs we’re used before status updates on Facebook made people easier to post their ideas, to a web site they can also be used with photos, podcasts, and video, but the most common personal was accounts, movies/tv sports politics. The disadvantages of social media are opens up the possibility of hackers, and cause virus attacks, fraud these things are done quite often, causes identity theft, and even data theft, could cause negativity from employees or publish private material, could lose productivity if employees are updating profiles. I have seen some of these things done at my job, hackers would come in and completely shut the systems down be days without internet. I have read some negativity from people on any of these sites, in fact I’ve had a few myself, but luckily I just blocked them from there. How might knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter. How a person might use social media? Would be more careful how they would handle their business but don’t need the advertisement of negativity same with blogs, anything we write on any of these sites are likely to be set up for negativity. So me knowing what I know I would be very aware of my surroundings. So I will be able to notice any kind of wrong doing, and watch what I say and how much of it I do say. What credibility issues can arise from information on the internet? Just because something is posted doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true. In our web world it’s hard to tell what’s the truth, what’s not. There are certain sites you can rely on and certain ones you can’t. You want to look for author’s qualifications, credentials, and connections to the subject. Be weary of sites which publish information without letting you know if this information is a personal viewpoint. You need to ask yourself this question. Does the author tell you the original source? Also is the original creditable? Because there is so much information on the web good and bad finding what you want is not an exact science and can be time consuming. Developing a keen sense of the credibility of sources based on such clues as connection of author to the subject, audience, source of publication, and documentation of supporting evidence can also help you evaluate print and other types of sources. There are so many things to prepare ourselves for in this advancing world, moves so fast and continues to improve.