This document discusses social networking sites and their impact on society. It begins by defining social networking sites and providing examples like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Orkut. It outlines pros of social networking like connecting with others, sharing information, and professional networking. Potential cons are also examined, such as privacy issues, overuse affecting grades, and criminal activity. The document considers effects on society like changing lifestyles and evaluating relationships solely based on online profiles. In conclusion, it maintains that technology should be used positively rather than for harm.

1. LEARNING GOALS
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INTRODUCTION
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MORE ABOUT SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
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PROS AND CONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES
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EFFECT ON THE SOCIETY
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CONCLUSION

2. INTRODUCTION
Social Networking Sites are the websites that are
used to interact with other users or to find people
with same likes or interests. These sites are
helpful in the development of social and
professional relations among different people.
They are also used to share information, services
or resources among different users. There are a
huge number of social networking sites available
like Facebook, About.me, Blogster, Flickr,
Instagram, Orkut etc. It is a tool used by people all

3. SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
There are a lot of social networking sites that are
used for different purposes like for educational
purpose, for business, for socializing, making
friends and online dating and so on. Some social
networking sites are popular across the globe.
Some of the famous websites are as under:
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Facebook:- So far, facebook is the most popular
social networking site with over 350 million users.
It is used by people to stay connected to their
family, friends, and relatives.

4. SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)
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LinkedIn:- with over 75 million users, this site is
most popular among business people. It's a
great place to network with business people and
even promote your blog.
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Orkut:- Google is the owner of Orkut. It is most
popular in India and Brazil with over 100 million
users.
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Hi5:- Hi5 is used by over 80 million people. It's
most popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand,
Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa and Latin
America.

5. PROS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES
As we all know that every coin has two sides. So
using social networking sites has both pros and
cons. The positive points about using these sites
are as follows:
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Social networking sites are a very way to spread
information all around the world. For information
sharing, it is fast than any other media.
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Social networking sites helps students in their
studies because they can do their assignments
and school work over internet and discuss with
their friends too.

6. PROS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)
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Social networking sites enables us to make new
friends and strengthens relationships.
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Social networking sites helps to improve the
quality of life of the people and also reduce the
risk of health problems.
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Social networking sites also enables people to
do face-to-face interaction with people all around
the world.
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Social networking sites also help for the women
empowerment.

7. 
Social networking sites also helps senior citizens
to stay connected to the society.
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Small business or corporation use social media
to interact with their customers and increase the
visibility of their products online.
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Many colleges and universities use websites like
Facebook, Twitter and Youtube for the
recruitment of the students .
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Social networking sites provides teachers a
platform for collaboration with other teachers and
to communicate with the students outside the
class.
PROS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)

8. 
“Crowdsourcing” and “Crowdfunding” feature
of
social media help people to collectively
accomplish a goal.
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Social networking sites help shy or socially
isolated people to stay connected to the outside
world.
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Social networking sites help employees to
search jobs and employers to find employees.
PROS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)

9. CONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES
Social networking sites lack privacy.
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Students neglect their studies by getting too
much involved in the net surfing. So they get
lower grades.
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Social networking sites lead to offline
relationship
problems and stress.
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It is a big reason for less face to face
interaction.
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Criminals use social networking sites to
commit
crimes.
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Youngsters also misuse these sites for wrong
activities.

10. CONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)
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Social networking sites are also responsible for
cyberbullying.
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People who get very much addicted to use
social
networking sites get pron to social isolation.
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It enables to school students to do cheating in
their assignments.
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Social networks do not scan messages for
viruses, scams etc. They also do not protect our
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information from theft or hacking.

11. CONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES(Contd.)
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Social networking sites also lead to lack of
communication between the students and the
teachers.
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Some people misguide other people by posting
the wrong information.
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Unauthorized sharing on social networking
sites
exposes artists to break copyright rules, loss of
income and intellectual property.
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They harm productivity of the employees.

12. EFFECTS ON SOCIETY
Social networking sites have a huge impact on the
society. People are making thousands of friends
and they always try to enlarge their social circle
which sometimes creates problems for them.
People are trying to change their lifestyle.They
are
trying to copy others. They are trying to hide their
original personality. They just want to became
what others like. Society is becoming more
materialistic. People do not value their
Relationships. I think, the future generation will be

13. EFFECT ON SOCIETY(Contd.)
Unable to distinguish between meaningful
relationships and casual relations. They always
distract people from their original way or motives.
People share a lot of information like their
hobbies, interests, school, workplace etc that
sometimes prove to be dangerous.

14. EFFECT ON YOUTH
Today, we live in a world where contacting
someone, sharing something with somebody is
just one click away. Social networking sites are
now available to fulfil one's immediate social
needs. We can share whatever we have on our
mind with anybody at any time and anywhere in
the world. As we all know that today's youth is
very much attached to these social networking
sites . Its good to express your views or
thoughts with your friends but excessive sharing
of your personal information is not good. People

15. EFFECT ON YOUTH(Contd.)
will take advantage of that to hurt you. There
are certain studies that shoes that excessive
expression of thoughts make our youth more
vain and egocentric. Some people share their
pictures and videos which gives a chance to
cyber bullies to blackmail people by saying that
they will post something embarrassing about
them. Sometimes, youth get involved in some
kind of criminal activities.

16. CONCLUSION
In the end I would like to conclude that everything
has positive as well as negative points but we
will always have to try to use a thing in a
positive way. Technology has given us so many
sites that we can use to grow up in life. We
should use them in a better way. We will have to
try to use them as a boon and not a crime. We
should never misuse them to harm others.

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