Negative Impact of Social Networking Social Networking Has a Negative Social Impact The level of hype regarding social networks continues to reach new heights, with much being said about how these websites and platforms can bring companies and customers together more effectively than any other medium before (Bernoff, Li, 2008)
Cyberbullying is reason enough to not have expanded social networks and promote their use. Finally, social networks do more to harm and hot help trust (Di Cagno, Sciubba, 2010)
Social networking's popularity is driven by narcissism and has shown to be an exceptionally expensive waste of time. Studies indicate that tens of billions of dollars a year are lost in productvit8y due to employees being on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites instead of working (Hathi, 2008)
The much-promised value of social networks is then an illusion, with benefits that could easily be attained through other means. A second aspect of why social networks have such a negative social impact is because it creates a fertile environment for cyber bullying and abuse that many are too cowardly to do in person (Meredith, 2010)
Accomplishing broad differentiation requires a strong and unique value proposition, a feat that Facebook has been able to accomplish through its visionary development of corporate alliances and focus on customer-centric growth strategies. Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is an example of a corporate-level strategy that strongly enhances the Facebook customer experience (Rusli, 2011)
2). On the other hand, technology cannot replace the positive and exclusively human trait of wisdom, the ability to employ data (symbols), information (processed data), knowledge (the application of data and information) and understanding (the synthesis of knowledge to create new knowledge) in order to envision, design, assess and continually improve the optimum human/technical organization (Bellinger, Castro, & Mills, 2004)
First, technical systems should be repeatedly assessed and upgraded as often as practicable to handle information and minimize its overload. Speaking from personal experience as well as research, obsolete hardware and software can make electronic records extremely difficult or even impossible to read (Blair, 2010)
Secondly, purely technical changes in an organization's systems cannot cure or replace some human factors vitally affecting an organization. In the face of an organizational problem, the mere introduction of new technology ignores the "two-way relationship between people and machines" (Errey & Liu, 2006, p
Certainly, there are arguments or at least practices disagreeing with the need for changes in both technical and social systems to handle information overload. Some organizations overemphasize technical aspects and minimize the importance of human wisdom or even negate it entirely (Green, 2010)
Amazingly, despite the recession, they are still gap-yearing around the world using WAYN to meet fellow travelers, and there are now 15.5 million registered users globally." (Butcher, 2010, p
Antti Vasara, vice-president of corporate strategy at Nokia, explained to Duryee that the variety of Internet gateways will be compressed until the average user no longer gets content from desktop computers, TV set-top boxes, and handheld devices. Instead mobile will become the "one way -- the dominant way -- to access [the Internet]" (Duryee, 2006)
7 million. This is actually an extraordinarily large range, but it is based on three statistical scenarios, all of which are reasonable (Hussar, 1999)
The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how the paradox of social networks leads to greater isolation over inclusive, collaborative behaviors as many social networks ironically were designed to achieve (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, Brashears, 2006). This paradox becomes especially visible in the context of professional workplaces where social network structures reflect actual organizational hierarchies (Bennett, Owers, Pitt, Tucker, 2010)
On Twitter it is common to find people with tens of thousands followers yet not actual, meaningful interchange. Social networks reward members for racking up significant numbers of followers while minimizing the value of interactions (Glorieux, 1993)
In addition, the number of acquaintances listed on Facebook may number in the hundreds, possibly even the thousands. On LinkedIn it is common to find professionals with over 600 professional contacts yet without any recommendations or sign of interaction whatsoever (Koch, Gonzalez, Leidner, 2012)
This is the paradox of social networks; they provide a very stable platform for communication and collaboration, including real-time sharing of status updates, yet they reward popularity and the focus on self-promotion first (Koch, Gonzalez, Leidner, 2012). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how the paradox of social networks leads to greater isolation over inclusive, collaborative behaviors as many social networks ironically were designed to achieve (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, Brashears, 2006)
Exploring the Paradox of Social Networks The meteoric rise of Facebook can be attributed to the loneliness and isolation college students feel when they away from family and friends, in addition to the social isolation of not being included in the most active or desirable groups on a campus. The irony of social networks is that while they were designed to provide for inclusive frameworks to unite a social fabric of an organization or school, in fact they often lead to a Balkanization of social groups, a splintering of interest and status hierarchies over time (Wellman, 2008)
Because so many students use these sites, parents, teachers, and school administrators are finding many uses for social networking both inside and outside of the classroom. Three writers state, "High school teacher Alyssa Trzeszkowski-Giese claims that her profile on Facebook has allowed her to establish deeper relationships with and understandings of her students because she can communicate with them beyond the four walls of the classroom" (Carter, Foulger, and Ewbank)
There are more women than men on Twitter, and 21% of its members have never posted a Tweet. Five percent of the users account for 75% of the activity on the site, too (Cheng and Evans)
Social networking actually teaches adolescents some valuable skills. A reporter notes, "But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age" (Goff)