Social Networking

Social networking has become the norm for many people.  Since millions of people use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, companies are able to take advantage of Facebook and Twitter.  They use these sites to conduct a thorough "personal interview" of possible job candidates.  According to the article Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting written by Frank Langfitt, companies could use Facebook to find people who suit their company needs.  They are able to look at photos and dig up information about random people who suit their requirements.  It is said that is a more efficient way of find talent rather than asking around on LinkedIn for people with the job requirement skills.  Social networking is also beneficial to companies with a large number of employees.  According to http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2007/gb20071030_537362.htm, Nissan is one of the larger companies that employs over 180,000 people world wide.  They created a social networking site similar to myspace called N-square.  Having their employees use N-square allows collaboration on projects and ideas such as breakpads from multiple places.  For example employees from a Japanese and American research department could be working on the same project without having to commute the thousands of miles back and forth.  Even though social networking is very useful for multiple purposes, I believe it has become an addiction for many.  In one of the articles, there has been research that children between the age of 8 and 18 use an average of 7 and 1/2 hours of electronic devices daily.  Children are now less physically active, which often leads to obesity.  The rate of obesity has increase at such rapid rates that even states like New York have the ratio of 1 in 5 people would be overweight.  This would lead to more money spent on treating health problems caused by obesity.