Social Networking a Boon or Curse

The above cartoon amply demonstrates that one must use the social networking sites with caution as as one always leaves the footprints behind on the net. However do not get so dismayed as one can use the social bookmarking site to their benefit. Social networking statistics shows that this is gaining a lot of popularity as Facebook has crossed 400 million mark as the subscriber base and has already crossed Yahoo as the second most visited site and Google is now feeling the heat. Other social networking sites are Linkedin and Orkut etc.

It has come to the light that companies in India are asking the job seekers to let them know about their social presence and are even asking about the number of friends or users on their network. They are even physically checking the social networking site and the benefit they can derive with this strategy is that they ask these employees to discretely drop the name of their products in their conversations.

Thus one can use the social networking in India with discretion and thus the question of social networking a boon or bane does not arise. One has to make sure that one do not unnecessarily tag images or write any thing which can hurt the feelings of other individuals.