Social Networking

Social Networking

In today's time, we see major corporations using social networking to promote their cause literally all the time. I can almost guarantee, every corporate has some type of Facebook page. Whether it is promoting of just informing what the company is all about. Whether it is fan made or official, odds are it exists. It can be used for so so so many different things. Social networking can be used to promote sales, updated inventory, it can let people know the hours of operation.  It can also be used to let employees see what is going on within the business, contact fellow employees.  In some cases Facebook has actually helps with boosting job recruiting.  "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing that has happen to job recruiting..." -Maureen Crawford Hentz (http://www.npr.org/templates) Social networking benefits everyone, I can tell you this both as a consumer and an employee. As far as a negative side, there is a dark side to everything.. People become easily addicted, especially to social media. It could be distracting to the employees and if not updated and organized, provide false information to consumers. But I personally feel the goods out weigh the bads. If a company wants to stay relevant they have to keep up with "New Media" otherwise I feel they will become obselete. I think it is necessary to stay updated with the times if you plan on having a future. Social media and its uses will continue only to expand and be more useful with the future.  Creator of Facebook Mark Zukerburg had this to add "Facebook may explore ways to earn revenue off of the service in the future." (http://articles.chicagotribune.com) Showing that social media has a future in the world of business.