Pros and Cons of Social Networking

Brief History
The first electronic digital computers were developed between 1940-1945 and were mostly used by scientists for military applications. They were programmed to carry out a finite set of logical and arithmetic operations. When the invention of computers came into light, no-one thought they would use it to communicate with people from half way around the world or even a friend from just down the road. But then not long after in the 1960's the internet was born and this allowed many people to have easy access to information and to connect to billions of other people worldwide, this was the start of a different kind of life style for billions of people worldwide by new ways of communicating and new technologies.

Now Today

Computers or Laptops as many of us students have access to, are used more than ever in everyday activity. The internet has become an necessity and like many of us, I admit that I wouldn't be able to live without it. I would say the Social Networking is the most successful creation to come out of the use of the internet, as it has created this whole new way to allows different kinds of people to connect or get their argument across in a variety of ways. Websites such as Facebook lets loads of kinds of people get communicate with friends, family and colleagues from different areas of the world. There are many positive and negative things towards social networking. The positive is that the internet it free and fast so, it makes communicating more accessible, easy to share information and with the use of Twitter people can follow their favourite celebrities and see what they are doing.
However the negative aspect of social networking on people is it can become very addictive, it can take over people's lives and make their attention spams a lot shorter if too much time is spent on them. This then can impact on how children do in school or people in a work place.

Here's is a brain storm that gives you a brief outline on the different soical networks that are out there and how they are used.