Social Networking

Social Networking is where various people, who share common interests, come together and form a group that can meet every so often at a physical location or on the Internet. 

Social Networking that meets in a physical location could be a poetry society, a photography club, a group who like to make quilts or who like to play chess; it could be an athletic competition, or those who like to kayak or ride bicycles, or those who want to meet at a bar and drink beer, or a match making service.

Social Networking on the Internet is a relatively new phenomenon and is probably best illustrated by Facebook which now boasts of 900 million users from literally all corners of the world.  It has been the fastest growing Social Network in recent years.  Facebook generates revenues from advertisers who target all or segments of those 900 million users.

If you are new to social networking and do not know where to begin, there are social networking guides to assist you in getting started.  So, if that is you, click here

Or, if you know social networking but do not know where the top social networking sites are, well, you need to click here  

Unfortunately, cyber bullying is rampant on the Internet and it can be emotionally devastating to youngsters who do not have the emotional stability or maturity to deal with negative comments.  It is also an opportunity for youngster to slip past the scrutiny of their parents and post exploitive photos of themselves, taken with cell phones, in an effort to draw attention to themselves, like so many of our teenagers today need to do; but, that attention turns out to offer more negative consequences than positive. 

Social Networking sites have a pre-disposition to draw predators due to the anonymity capabilities of its users.  They are also sites for identity theft and fraud.

Co-Founder of FACEBOOK

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur.[6] He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chairman and chief executive.[7] It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.[8][9] Zuckerberg remains the largest individual shareholder, with 28.4 percent of the common stock and controls 56.9 percent of the voting power.[10]

Zuckerberg was named four times in Time 100 respectively in 2009 as one of the 100 influential people of the world, in 2010 as Time magazine's Person of the Year[11], in 2011[12] as one of the 100 influential people of the world and in 2012 in "The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time" by Joel Stein in Time.[13] As of 2012[update], his personal wealth is estimated to be $17.5 billion, making him one of the world's youngest billionaires.[5]