Social Networking: Trends, Uses, and Limitations

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Introduction
The world is said to be growing to be a global village. The main reason is the internet.
However, the internet is the general term, the reason supporting the global village is the issue of
social networking through social media. That’s what makes the world a global village. In the
current regime, people in different corners of the earth can easily communicate as if there are
next to each other. All these cannot be compared to the past centuries where people had to pass
messages physically. Social networking is the mother of all successful business in the world. It
has made people billionaires who are now online entrepreneurs. Such people are Mark
Zuckerberg who is the Facebook owner and among the founders. Such inventions have led to
employment opportunities to over millions of people. People benefit from such a program both
directly and indirectly. Directly, people are offered employment in such a Company while
indirectly people use the social media as a marketing platform and earn from it.
Social networking did start today, it started decades back (Steinberg et al 2015, 110). The
only difference is that there are major advancements as people wake up every day. People in the
past used to walk to socialize and that was social networking too. Things changed when the
internet was introduced. One of the known networking platforms is the Facebook. It was also the
mother of social media platforms. It was introduced first before companies like Classmate and
Instagram. There are million people who have accounts in the Company. It’s a worldwide
platform (Al-Aufi and Fulton. 2015, 225).
Social media can be used to do various things (Waters 2013, 102). These things change
over time. Taking a Company like Facebook, it just started as a social media platforms where

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people just added friends and pictures. The uses keep on changing as people also understand how
such platforms can be used for the better compared to just socializing. Currently, people have
even settled businesses in other people platforms. Giving an example, bloggers use social media
like Facebook and LinkedIn to show their prowess in matters affecting human beings. Look at
them now; some are millionaires because of that. But before, it was just a platform which was
used to communicate. In developing countries, people use the social media to do business.
People advertise the used cars and such platforms for resale. There are others who are
developers; they do advertise their services on such platforms to get clients. Social media is used
everywhere (Shi et al. 2018, 00).
People might think that social networking has come to an end, but there will always be
more. Inventions don’t stop; they evolve around time. There are still more in the future, and they
will be better compared to know. In social networking, everything is equally possible.
Methodology
To get the trends and developments in social networking, there was the need to do
researches on people who work in social media companies and the users. The best form of
collecting the data was through surveys and interviews. Interviews were to the employees in
social media companies while online surveys were done to the general public.
Interviews done to the employees in social media companies were focused on the trends
and issues affecting such companies. The employees touched areas like hacking and information
release as some of the challenging issues. The trends revolved around making the social media
more close to human beings as possible.