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9. What risks do users run posting personal information?
10. The new technologies are a great way to communicate, aren’t they?
How We Are Connecting With Social Networks
Today we will take a look at some of the ways (good and not so good) that
sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are reshaping communications.
People use social networking sites to share ideas, opinions and interests.
Millions post comments, videos, pictures, links and other content, or just follow what
other users post.
People reconnect with old friends and classmates, and make new connections.
Social networks are all about connecting friends and friends of friends, just like in the
physical world.
Social media is a way to communicate one to many. But sites generally have a
way for users to also send private messages and to control access to their pages.
Social media is still young and evolving. Take the example of Facebook. It was
launched in 2004 as a social network just for Harvard students. Then it opened up to
all colleges. Then high schools got their own private pages.
Now anyone can join. Facebook said it had over two hundred fifty million
active users as of July. And not everyone is happy about that. Karey is a student at
Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. "I have kept my mom off of
Facebook. She wants one, I said 'No, you can't have one.' It started out as a college
thing and then high school students got it. The value of it decreases to me with like
the wider amount of people. Like the older population that gets it, I'm not OK with
that."
Ekin Oz is a seventeen-year-old exchange student from Turkey. She does not
think older people should be on Facebook: "I think it's so silly because like it's
something for teenagers."
But a lot of older people would disagree that social networks are just for
teenagers. About eighty percent of American adults use the Internet. A recent online
survey found that half of them now belong to social networks like Facebook and
LinkedIn.
Forrester Research says four out of five online adults use social media at least
once a month. That includes almost everyone age eighteen to thirty-four. Now, the
fastest growing group of users are people thirty-five and older.
That would include thirty-nine-year-old Evan Falchuk. He says he first heard
about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.

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