Inform Yourself: Social Networking and You - 85 views
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academia is just scratching the surface about the implications of social networking and what exactly it is, what it means, and how it happens
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"Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?"
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"students were using Facebook to increase the size of their social network, and therefore their access to more information and diverse perspectives. "
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"Powerful new technologies provide great benefits, but they also change the way we live, and not always in ways that everyone likes. An example is the spread of air conditioning, which makes us more comfortable, but those who grew up before its invention speak fondly of a time when everyone sat on the front porch and talked to their neighbors rather than going indoors to stay cool and watch TV. The declining cost of information processing and communication represents a powerful new technology, with social networking as the most recent service to be provided at modest cost. It can be expected to bring pluses and minuses."
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social networking technologies support and enable a new model of social life, in which people’s social circles will consist of many more, but weaker, ties
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Social networking technologies provide people with a low cost (in terms of time and effort) way of making and keeping social connections, enabling a social scenario in which people have huge numbers of diverse, but not very close, acquaintances.
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A brief look at social networking theory with interesting views of SNs and where academia are "at" with regards to the emerging field. The post is a little old (Aug 2010) but much is still relevant and the link through to the Freakonomics blog is worthwhile following.
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I'm not sure how the connection between social networking and Chritianity will fit in a school environment.