Social networking is beneficial for society
The importance of social
networking through channels like Facebook, Google, and Twitter could not be
overlooked. Facebook alone has about 1.11 billion monthly actively users that
are continuously increasing on daily basis, which strongly indicates the
increasing importance of social networking (Cheung, 2017, p.12) .
Firstly, social media networking have brought global networking into life through social media channels. We can see benefits of business expansion through social networking. Particularly small societies who tend to live in boundaries of their own countries or geographical area are now more connected than ever to their own and other societies. Through Gotomeetign.com, Skype chat, and Face book Messenger they are now more interactive and informative than ever. Families and friends across globe easily get socially interact with available social media channels.
This would have not been possible without social media
channels advancement if we look and compare it in from last 20 years. According
to Jesica (2012, p. ) more
than 94% of businesses with marketing department are using social media
channels to stay in connection with their customers and general public and
almost 60% of marketer are now devoting full time of their job to keep
connection socially with their customers. We can now understand the need of
social networking and social media sites to stay socially active in today’s
time for better engagement and become socially responsible in businesses.
Engaging young generation through social networking for learning
According
to Social media marketing industry report carried out by
socialmediaexaminer.com in 2012 more than 43% of people aged between 20-29
years are spending more than 10 hours on social media networking to stay in
touch with their friends and family. Whereas from business prospective,
marketer have focused on building societies through corporate Social
responsibility and for this are now fully focusing on social media channels to
strengthen the networking between then and there targeted societies. In this
way societies actively evolving on social media channels not only engaging with
their family and friends across globe but also they tend to find useful and
informative information marketed by responsible business to keep them informed
about their health and lifestyle on daily basis. Social networking sites provide
an excellent platform for building new relationships (Cheung, 2017) . Social
networking engagement into younger ones in society plus learning engagement
through social networking is an important part to become socially responsible
citizen.
Non-profits are seeing the benefits of using
social media for their awareness campaigns
Social networking
enables us from current happenings arougd the world and let us connects with
global community with our vision and opinions on social platforms. In general
communities with social networking seen as increasing in patience and humanity
through social media engagement for an example earthquake in took place Haiti
have gathered all communities on one social platform from around the world and
people of all ages were sharing their condolence for loss of Haiti residents
and sending their contribution for people in trouble at that place (Gurman, 2015) . Through # Hashtag people on social network find
related events and content and shape a new community with similar interest.
So we
could say that socially networking have enabled our communities become more
focused on humanitarian cause and are helping each other with continuous social
interactions taking place online. Whereas learning new cultures an interaction
with different societies while preserving ones’ own values have been another
important aspect playing a vital role in socially interactive community
platforms such as Twitter, Facebook.com, youtube.com, etc.
Finding Connections
Contemporary social technologies are used by hundreds of millions of users, available for
free, and are engaging and fun to use, making them appropriate to be harnessed
for teaching and learning and in particular to enhance social interactions (Hamid, 2017) . People tend to forget about friends to
whom they have met or have studies together in their O and A levels similarly
international students and business individuals tends to find different meeting
and then have no medium to stay in contact, well that was the scenario if we
look into past 20 years, when people and societies were not known about social
media channels. Now a day’s people from all societies are finding and
connecting with similar interest on social groups and particularly finding
interested contact and their old friends online by visiting recent place
visited or school studied, etc. In this way societies are much more connected
than ever and the benefit of have been tremendous as they connect with each
other on daily basis form casual meet up or parties to live better lives.
Social Networking with customers
One
the other hand, businesses have used social engagement channels to collectively
gather interest from different societies and make them socially interactive at
different online platform like running a contest online to vote for favorite
actor or through posting General Knowledge questionnaire. Affect-driving features of social networking sites, such as FACEBOOK applications embedded with mini-games,
coupons, interesting articles, or videos, encourage users to participate (Cheung, 2017) . In this regard socially connected
societies get experience; engagement and learning with trending affairs while
business keep their prospect customers loyal to their brand.
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