Social networking has grown tremendously since the rise of the internet. It allows people to connect with friends and family online and share updates and photos. While social media provides benefits like staying in touch and making new connections, it also poses risks to privacy and overuse can negatively impact school performance, work productivity, and sleep. Users must be aware of how to safely utilize social networks while minimizing disadvantages.

1. Social Network!!
PRESENTED BY: SARA ALBAKER

2. What is Social Networking?
• Social network can be defined as any group of
people that shares or activities through online
websites.
• These networks are build of friends and families to
share friends and meet other people with those
friends.

3. History of Social Network
 Being connected to the world around us has never
been more easier accessible than it today. After the
internet made it possible around the global within a
click if a button.
 Social networking exploited as one of the biggest
business industries.
 Social network sire began in generalized online
communications as theglobe.com etc..

4. Users of Social Network
World Internet Users
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20% World Internet Users
10%
0%

5. Social networking benefits
 Staying connected with friends.
 For means of communication.
 Keeping up-to-date on news more quickly.
 Achieving a more personal connection.
 Making friends with similar interests and "likes".
 Researches.
 For free advertising.
 For creative expression.
 Experience global exposure.
 Creating a positive impact on the world.

6. Examples of socials sites

7. Business benefits of using Facebook!!
 Branding.
 Customer Engagement.
 Drive web traffic.
 Reputation management.
 New customer acquisition.
 Lead generation.
 Client retention.
 Access to the social world and it’s inherent value.
 The Viral Effect/
 Feedback Mechanism and build business use cases.

8. Disadvantages of the Social network
Lower School Performance
 Studies have shown that extensive use of social
networking sites lowers attention spans, resulting in
lower grades.
 Addiction to anything is socially popular as facebook
, twitter etc..

9. Job Termination
How?!!
 72% of companies’ employees spend more than 1-3
hours on social networking sites.
 Not Productive

10. Not actually being there!!
Jane Posted on your wall “Happy Birthday!!”
 Not as good as being with friends and family
 May make distance grow between you and your
friend/Family unintentionally.

11. Self-Induced Insomnia
 People spend countless hours in this site looking to
“add” people they sort of know so they can be
friends.
 Many use this as an alternative to real social
interaction.

12. Privacy goes out the window!
 “Privacy Sittings” means nothing when your account
is hacked.
 Friends of friends of friends.. They all can know your
information and reach you easily .

13. Disturbing Practices
 One of the Social Networking CEO has done some
very unethical things to make it HUGE!
 All of these APPs have your information.
 Very Difficult to delete your account from any social
network.

14. Its dangers
Why people are wary about it?!!
“Firstly, I want to tell you that you must be very
careful about what you post on Facebook, because at
this time of YouTube and other community
sites, anything that you wish to be presented against
you throughout your life”
Barack Obama
President of the United States

15. Conclusion
The Social Network had became an un controllable
thing. People have to know how to take advantage of
the benefits and try to avoid the disadvantages of it.
Nowadays everything is dependable on the network;
studies, researches and communications.
Its hard to not use it or ignore it. It’s the 21st century
and the whole world is on unstoppable revelation.