Social+Networking+Technologies

Social Networking Technologies

Outline: Introduction Background Information Key Issues Solutions Summary References
 * Provide brief examples of social technologies
 * Provide an introduction of how social technologies affect learning and instructional design
 * How social technologies came to be
 * How social technologies have been impacting the learning and instructional designing process
 * Reliability – can you trust what others post?
 * Userability – can everyone use it?
 * Social Networking Technologies used in/for educational purposes
 * Safety Issues in Social Networking Technologies
 * How to find reliability in social networking technologies
 * How everyone can use different types of social networking technologies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How social networking technologies can benefit education
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How to use social networking technologies safely
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Summary of points addressed in each section
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">http://courseware.finntrack.eu/education/PUB7202.pdf#page=219


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Terms/Definitions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Social networking technologies - SNT
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Define, with examples, the different social networking technologies discussed in the chapter. In this way, if the reader has not used the social networking technology discussed, they can understand the concept of it.

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ROUGH DRAFT 1 = =//Hi guys, here is what I have written so far. I'm in need of guidance in terms of enhancing my key issues section, which will of course impact my solutions section, and I can then summarize the chapter. Thank you for the helpful feedback -Elsa//= = = **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Introduction – What are Social Networking Technologies? __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Social networking and Web 2.0 technologies are very similar in their definitions, in that these technologies allow users to share, interact, and communicate on different websites. Social networking in a Web 2.0 technologies context allows participants to contribute to the information and learning process, and ultimately learn from each other through connections, messaging, commenting, and profile information. For example, using the social networking technologies of Facebook, Myspace, Google +, blogs, or Twitter, a user can pose a question and have it answered by another user, or someone can post or “tweet” information on their profile for other users to read. Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, Google+, and SixDegrees.com are examples of popular social networking technologies that have all experienced growth and decline in the popularity from their users.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Indeed, social networking technologies have greatly advanced the concept of peer learning. In the past, learning could only be held in a classroom or through reading materials, but with the rise of new technologies, learning styles have progressed into the use of the computer programs for learning. What was in common between the old and new (technology vs. none) learning methods was that they required either an expert to learn from or the drive, determination, and passion to teach yourself. In today’s world, society is offered a new option. Social networking has lead to a new learning style of collaborative learning with increased communication venues. What started as a way of keeping up with friends, has evolved into a new type of learning tool incorporating past learning and teaching methods with new ones. In this way, learners can continue to learn from experts, or can choose to learn alongside peers and teach each other. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Background Information – The Rise and Need of Social Networks __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">It appears that the first social networking site, SixDegrees.com, came to be in 1997 where users communicated by sending messages to each other (Joyce & Brown, 2009). Since 1997, a plethora of social networking sites have emerged with different aims of connecting, communicating, and sharing. For example, the social networking sites of LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster range from aims from business professionals networking to friend connections staying in touch (Joyce & Brown, 2009). As seen over the past decade, more and more social technologies are sprouting up like never before (most recently joining the club is Google +), with all different types of communication and learning aims. As Facebook has risen to the top of the most used social networking sites, it comes to no surprise when reported that “on the first day of college, 85% of college students have a Facebook account, and by the end of the first semester, 94% of college students have a Facebook account” (Smith, 2007).To increase, promote, and further motivate learners, it would benefit instructional designers to use these social tools to encourage more places for interaction and learning (Joyce & Brown, 2009). By utilizing the technology already familiar to the students, instructors and designers can better relate and communicate to enhance the learning experience. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It can be seen at universities globally that distance learning and online classes are becoming more popular. With the popularity of online learning comes new challenges, such as class participation and the sense of belonging to the class without ever meeting face to face. “Enhancing social presence with the use of social networking tools should provide a stronger sense of community” (Joyce & Brown, 2009), and can assist in a learning advantage for students when it comes to learning. In this way, social networking tools can create a feeling of wanting to continue to learn for the students. If a class were to participate in social networking, more opportunities between the students, and the student and instructor, can take place to create that stronger sense of community. As Boyd and Ellison describe, it is more often than not users on social networking sites not connecting with strangers, but communication with people who already belong to their extended social network (Boyd and Ellison, 2007). Furthermore, social network sites such as Facebook allow students to increase their connectivity to their college campus’ by adding their school to one of their networks. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Social Networking Technologies Around the World __** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">As seen in the United States, Myspace, Facebook, and LinkedIn have quickly risen to popularity as the present three most used social networking sites in the country.While these social networking sites are available to users in other countries, there is an endless wealth of social networking sites out there.For example, Wikipedia has composed a chart of a “list of social networking sites”, stating in the description/focus what the site is used for, and in what region of the world in which the social network site targets. This chart can be found at []. As it is no surprise, new types of technologies pop up daily. For example, launch dates of some of the social network sites listed on the chart date from 1995 to the present. As illustrated by the list of social networking websites chart, and as technology continues to develop, the use and amount of social networking technologies is extremely vast.One might say that there is a social networking site at there for everyone <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Furthermore, in 2010 socialmediatoday.com posted an article stating the forty most popular social networking sites of the world. In this article, the highlights of social networking internationally include Bebo in the United Kingdom, Multiply in countries in Asia, Orkut in Brazil, Badoo in Russia and Brazil, SkyRock in France, Netlog in Belgium, Tuenti (the “Spanish Facebook”) in Spain, Nasza-Klasa.pl in Poland, IRC-Galleria in Finland, StudiVZ and Wer-kennt-wen in Germany, Renren and Kaixin001 in China, Millat Facebook in Pakistan, Cyworld in South Korea, Mixi in Japan, and iWiW in Hungary. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Key Issues of Social Networking Technologies __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It has been seen how social networking technologies and tools have benefited learning and teaching processes. However, paired with benefits are a couple of consequences as well. As will be discussed, ranging from safety to immediate access to professional connections, key issues of social networking technologies are evident with the benefits and consequences of such that cannot be ignored. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">For example, with the growth of social networking technologies, and students using as such, their expectation is “immediate access and response” (Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy and Shea, 2007) in regards to what they want to know and learn. Because of how quickly certain information can be accessed, it seems that users are not putting up with a waiting period any longer. Especially with the rise of the millennial generation, answers to questions and information are at people’s finger tips like never before. By utilizing social networking technologies, users can ask questions and learn from the world. For example, a person can pose a question on Facebook or Twitter to have anyone answer in response in a matter of seconds. It has been seen that more students flock to the Internet rather than the library for research, which carries positive and negative consequences (Joyce & Brown, 2009). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Measures of safety are probably one of the biggest key issues associated with social networking technologies. It has been seen that users of social networking technologies have experienced harassment, discrimination, stalking, and invasion of privacy, a lot to do with how much personal information they have publically posted for others to see. Consequences have included, but not limited to, expulsion from school, loss of status in organizations, denied academic degrees, and in extreme circumstances investigated by the Secret Service (Cain, 2008). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">In the same way, the growing popularity of social networking sites has also sparked employer’s interest to look up public private information about future employees. The ability for employers to type in the applicant’s names into a search engine to see what public information may pop up leads to some ethical issues when compared to previous hiring methods when all employers knew about their applicants was what was written on the application and said by their list of references. In this way, employers may learn topics of their applicant’s lives that are “off limits” during interviews such as age, marital status, etc. and may face discrimination charges (Kluemper & Rosen, 2009). While companies are mandated to abide by the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Equal Opportunity Act, some companies are actually conducting social media background checks that their candidates must consent to (Preston, 2011). Companies are concerned on how their employees, or prospective employees, depict themselves and the company online, and with the social media background check companies are seeing how much information they can find on their candidates from the past several years. While experts in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s office state that <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 200%;">“things that you can’t ask in an interview are the same things you can’t research”, that is not stopping 75% of recruiters conducting online research of candidates, and 70% of recruiters rejecting candidates because of the online researched information (Preston, 2011). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">On the other hand, social networking sites can also enhance and promote networking so that users can expand their professional connections. For example, the rising popular social networking site, LinkedIn (which has presently passed Myspace to be ranked as the second most popular social networking tool in the United States (Griggs, 2011)) allows users to create a virtual resume to organize their employment and education history, as well as their accreditations. Linkedin allows users to add other users to their network in order to make professional connections and view each other’s resume profiles. Most recently Linkedin has added a “button” (similar to the “like” button on Facebook) for employers to put on their websites so that applicants can instantaneously apply for jobs with their Linkedin resume profile (Parr, 2011). **__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Solutions – How to Best Utilize Social Networking Technologies __** = = = = = =
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 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Cain, J. (2008). Online social networking issues within academia and pharmacy education. //American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy//
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= = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">References = = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Boyd, D. M., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social networking sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. //Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication//, 210-230. = = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Buchegger, S., & Datta, A. (2009). A case for P2P infrastructures for social networks - opprotunities & challenges. //Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services, 2009. WONS 2009. Sixth International Conference on//. = = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Cain, J. (2008). Online social networking issues within academia and pharmacy education. //American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy//.

= = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Dziuban, C., Moskal, P., Brophy, J., & Shea, P. (2007). Student satisfaction with asynchronous learning. //Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks//.

= = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Griggs, B. (2011, July 11). //LinkedIn passes Myspace as No. 2 U.S. social network.// Retrieved July 13, 2011, from CNN: []

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Jain, S. (2010, Ocotber 6). //40 most popular social networking sites of the world.// Retrieved July 31, 2011, from Socialmediatoday: []

= = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Joyce, K. M., & Brown, A. (2009). Enhancing Social Presence in Online Learning: Mediation Strategies Applied to Social Networking Tools. //Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration//.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Kluemper, D. H., & Rosen, P. A. (2009). Future employment selection methods: Evaluting social networking web sites. //Journal of Mangerial Psychology//, 567-580.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Parr, B. (2011, July 25). //Linkedin launches button that lets you apply for jobs.// Retrieved July 28, 2011, from Mashable: []

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Preston, J. (2011, July 20). //Social media history becomes a new job hurdle.// Retrieved July 22, 2011, from The New York Times: [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Shirky, C. (2008). //Here Comes Everybody.// New York: The Penguin Press.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Smith, C. (2007). //When in Rome: Teaching 21st century student using 21st century tools.// Retrieved July 20, 2011, from []

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;">Wikipedia, The Free Encycopedia. (2011, August 2). //List of social networking webistes//. Retrieved August 2, 2011, from Wikipedia, The Free Encycopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

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