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Evan Falchuk is a lawyer. But he is president and chief operating officer of
Best Doctors, a medical company in Boston, Massachusetts. He likes to use
LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals. “I mean, I travel all over the
world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards
from them. And you get back to your office and look at the business card and you say
'Who was that again? And what did we talk about?' I try to write notes, but it's very
hard. Whereas if you connect with them on LinkedIn, now I've got not only the
person's name and contact information, but I know what their prior jobs were. I know
who they are connected to who I might know. You have a much richer way of
connecting with this person than you otherwise would.”
Evan Falchuk uses Facebook to connect with friends and family members. But
not all share his enthusiasm for social media. “My wife is a little bit less of a social
media user than I am. So I like to share things about what's going on. And we like to
go out to dinner to different places, for example, and I like to share 'Hey we're at this
place and this is what we had and it was good.' And then she is more private and says
'Well, I don't really want everybody to know where we are and what we're doing.'”
For couples in long-distance relationships, the main ways to communicate used
to be phone calls, letters and visits. Now, they have texting, e-mail, instant messaging
and video chat. Patricia is a student at Radford University in Virginia. "I was in a
long distance relationship for about a year, and Skype really helped because you
could actually see the other person when you are talking."
Skype is an Internet video and phone service that was just in the news. Its
current owner eBay agreed to sell a sixty-five percent share to a group of investors
for two billion dollars.
Ekin Oz uses Facebook and Skype to stay in touch with family and friends
back in Turkey. "I'm using Facebook to contact with my friends, I'm using Skype to
contact with my family. Because I miss my family so much, I want to see them, their
faces. It's much more important than friends."
But even a simple text message can mean a lot. Dan in Virginia is twenty years
old. He will be in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend after joining the
Marines. He says texting is good because it lets you communicate whenever you have time.
Not everyone in the military, however, is at ease with social media. The Marine
Corps has banned the use of sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on its
computers. But the ban does not limit access on other computers.
Many service members use social networks to communicate with their families
or with the public. The Defense Department has been writing a policy for all of the
military on the use of social networking sites. Defense officials say they are aiming
for a balance that will not compromise the security of operations or military
networks.

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