The Next New Thing

After youtube became popular among the world, everyone started sharing their favorite video throughout the world. In the future, there will be a kind of web service for people who wants to be an artist to express their work online. There are numerous video which made by professionals. So chance for ordinary person to become famous is still limited. World wide website like youtube for non professionals will be demanded soon.

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How Business is Using Social Networking
This is my contribution task. Then I have been doing research about both real and web-based social networking that could be used for business.

Web-based social networking sites such as facebook and twitter are powerful and efficient source of job hunting and recruiting. Both candidate and employer enjoy its advantage of saving time to get to know each other. However, business field like marketing research is having a hard time with reaching desired target, because as number of users increases, they are able to communicate with their friends only, they are unable to take a look at advertisement on the social networking site online.

About My Term Research Paper

My paper topic is an impact of social networking sites in today's society. A reason why I choose this topic is because popularity of social networking sites rapidly increased this past few years. Also it is unavoidable to talk about new media without dealing with Social networking sites. I pretty much did all research by using library database.

It would never been possible for web-based social networking sites to gain popularity without improvement of technology, particularly rapid improvement of Smartphone. By corroborating with Smartphone, connecting with rest of social networking members became more convenient and enjoyable than ever. There are many factors, which plays important role of one’s online behavior such as gender, age, and one’s characteristic like introvert or extrovert. The most influential characteristic is introvert or extrovert. Unlike extroverts, introverts tend to rely heavily onto online networking rather than interacting with people in the real world, which often cause them too sensitive about what others talking about online. Also dealing with personal information issue gets more and more complex. A lot of young people let strangers be in their community where they reveal traceable information such as gender, age, and email address. Those information often bring legal issue like whether being rejected for job was based on the revealed information online or something else. In addition, even though using web-based social networking sites made users life more convenient, some of researchers prefer old fashion to reach specific target rather than using web-based social networking sites. Increased popularity of web-based social networking sites has both advantage and disadvantage. It is also predictable that the growth will still go on in the future. Both users and websites need to focus more on disadvantages of online social networking than advantages. In that way, they will realize what they should be careful about better than when they focus on advantages. Also, the legal regulation dealing with personal information and what users are allowed to post should be more strictly formed, in order to avoid a serious incident like a loss of life. People should never commit suicide because of what happen in the virtual world.

Advice to Baruch College

In order to improve the college, understanding student's demand is the first step to be taken.

First of all, since most of students have a job, Baruch needs to consider setting up online classes. It is of course though to design online business classes because it has to have discussion, group presentation, and debate. So I would suggest to set up half online and half on campus course. Students meet on campus about twice a month for presentation, then they work on everything online. A lot of people have SNS or blog account, so they can easily communicate with each other.

Second of all, I think orientation, career developments and writing help, such as resume review, job fair preparation, and editing paper can be done online. In that case, student might need to submit their paper or resume in ahead of time to make sure it is ready for due date. But if those things can be done by online, lots of students and employees at Baruch have more flexible time. Also, preparation for job interview can be done by using skype. Baruch are famous for student's diversity of nationality, so lots of them get hired by international companies or out side of U.S. Those companies now correspond to job interview through online, because they find out that they get to have interview more variety of people in that way. Therefore, the career center needs to adopt with the new way of job interview too. 

Privacy & Confidentiality

Even after Internet security became much more reliable than it used to be, it is still needed to be improved for next generation.

Until up to recent, before SNS site became famous, users' privacy and confidentiality was debated issues through out the world. Because once it is on a web site, pretty much everyone can view who says what. Internet security was insufficient. However, internet security now has became much more sufficient. For example, most of SNS allows users to choose who they would like to share their thoughts and pictures. In that way, users feel safe to post what they think at the moment. What the most serious issue regarding to privacy is that users have almost no regulation of what they are allowed to say. So they can criticize other people and talk behind someone's back. Even though it was joking, some people take it as serious, which can be a cause of big trouble. It is very difficult to make a regulation for such things, but SNS needs to be more strictly supervised.