Communication++perspective+of+Social+Networking+(Brandon)

=**Communication views on:**= =**Internet Dating:**= With the internet at everyones hands now a days the way people communicate is different then the way it was twenty years ago. People now use the internet for more then just checking your emails and looking things up. Now the internet has a big business in internet dating. There are many sites from match.com to eharmony and chemistry.com. Some make you pay others don't. Many people that are single now a days use the internet to talk to people and internet dating is no exception. Having internet dating as a form of communication makes it easier for people to branch out and find someone they would like to date. The disadvantages to having internet dating though is it can cause more people to cheat in a relationship by simply hiding this from there significant other. Having a site similar to this can cause mixed emotions from people. Makes the relationship less personal because there can be almost no physical contact for that relationship. Since facebook has been around it appears as if relationships with people are becoming worse off with communication. Many relationships end up having problems do to the way they may communicate with some people on Facebook. There significant other may become mad because they posted something on there wall or said something inappropriate to someone. Facebook has also lead to more people talking through the computer and less through actually being face to face. This causes the world itself to be more desensitized in my opinion. It causes people to put up a mask and act like someone they are not. Many people will act differently on facebook to come off to there friends as cooler. With these obvious disadvantages though there are many advantages to having Facebook. People are able to communicate live with people who are across the country or world for nothing. It can keep parents and kids close when they are away from school. It also helps bring back friends who may have drifted away (good or bad). I think the main problem that I have with how people communicate with Facebook is that some people rely to much on it and when it doesn't work they freak out. Many people also use Facebook as there news source because so many news company and people post up to the date news around the world. =**Color:**= Color seems to have the least effect on communications out of the group because there is not much interaction with other people on color. They can view peoples photo's, but that is it. Having it picture based reduces the amount of personal opinion that one can have one something someones post. It does create though a different way to communicate through pictures. I guess the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. It also gives people a different way to communicate that is not just though text or calling one another. =**Video Based Social Networking:**= Many people who are on youtube typically look up funny videos or music. What a lot of people do not realize is that many people use such video based websites such as youtube to give them recent news going on in the world the latest how to the latest gadget and anything else they could possibly want. This I think is a positive way to communicate though because it gives you all of the information you want at your finger tips. Even though not all of the information is correct it is common for the ones that are to have more views.
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