Challenges of Social Network

           
           As we know, social network is very important in our daily live. This thing can make many kind of job more easily and saving a lot of time. Nowadays, everything is doing by just one click like whole world is in your hand. We can get the information around the world very faster as soon as possible. Some examples of social network are facebook, twitter, friendster and many more. Thousand or even million and billion of website about social network we can find in the internet. In this modern world, social network is like normal good, everyone need to face it every day to completed their work. Even my family had used the facebook in our business in order to promote our goods.

            World now is getting risky and we all expose to danger of using IT because everyone now is growing in the 21th century that are very different from 20 or 30 years ago. If our parents send a letter by post when they were young, we now can send it by email that are very easy just by click. Although this thing is very efficient but they also have disadvantages or we can call it the challenges is social network.

            Firstly, cyber crime. There are some  individual who have bad intention to others. They want to take advantage from others without thinking the effect from his or her action. In Utusan Malaysia, stated that Cyber crime increased over 100 percent. A total of 8090 cases of cyber crimes reported in the country within two months of this year compared to 3064 cases during the past year.For example, an individual's Facebook posting which insulted the Sultan of Johor over the ruler's gift of vehicles to the Royal Malaysian Police and on other case, in which someone had impersonated the Tunku Mahkota of Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, also through Facebook. We actually read this article in Malay Mail that has been written on Friday, October 15th, 2010. You can refer the article towards this link http://www.mmail.com.my/content/52430-johor-police-probes-facebook-posting-insulting-johor-sultan to get more information about this cases.

            Secondly, the challenges using social network is untrustworthy member. Many users submit inaccurate information on their profile. Without investigating who is their members and blindly trust them will lead users to danger. As reported in Harian Metro, for love and affection to a new lover who is known through chat rooms, a 37-year-old woman regret after losses more than RM30, 000 when the men were allegedly duped out of money. Without realizing her boyfriend wants to cheated her who is believed as Africans, she believe him and give him money. One more case is taken from Utusan Online, a women's from Sabah loss of RM1.2 million tricked Internet contacts.

            Another challenge of social networking is relationship with the people around became not friendly. This is because people using social network spend a lot of time in front of their computer such as chat, web cam, and read email. They do not spend their time with family and friends nearby such as conversation, greeting and visiting among neighborhoods. Users communicate with each other through the computer and not by face to face. So, it’s make them more difficult to be friend when they  meet each other one day soon because when we talk face to face, it is not same as we chat in the internet. It can make individual lack of self confident.

             Social network such as facebook, twitter, friendster and others is good for communication, but rather distract the students. Probably because of the benefits that can share files, add members and play some game. Now, if the students surfing internet, usually they will log in their social network accounts to reply messages , comment and post something. Using internet not wisely can distract the students and will have an impact on the performance of their education.

What is Social Networking?

   In Oxford dictionaries,social network is a network of social interactions and personal relationships.Social network also means a dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc..    In our own point of view, social networking is the link or way for people to communicate, interact among each other to share some information or socialize. Social networking is an alternative for some people who are busy with their daily life.

        According to Wikipedia,the definition of social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

      

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      First and foremost, this blog is created for our group assignment. This is for our Information Technology course. Our group have chosen this topic(Challenges of Social Network) to be discuss and shared with others. Each group consist of two members and each group need to create a blog based on the title chosen. We think, this topic is crucial and important to be discussed together in this era of IT. We hope we can share some benefit information to the readers and our followers. 

       Social networks by now even our parents are aware of them. In fact many of them even have their own profiles. The billions of daily page views on these networks mostly go to viewing pictures, writing on walls and, as research has shown and encourage dating.

       As we know, social networking become very common nowadays. Even 6 years old  children have account of social network.That's why parents are aware with their children. Most of peoples today have their own desktop or laptop and its provided with internet connection, social networking have become part of their life. 
      Social networking have affected people have two different life, which are reality life and cyberspace life. Reality life is the life that they socialize and interact with other people which can be seen and virtual. Cyberspace life is the life which they interact with other people in social networking and they not ever seen their friends before.