Social Network: A Boon or Curse

Hello Guys,

After a long time i am writing and this time i have selected a tough topic...i.e. Social Network.

In today’s E-World people are going with the flow of Internet Ways of Communication where in past you use to text or call people to know about their where about where as today you just need to connect to your people using Social Network such as Facebook, Google + and from Professional aspect you can use LinkedIn.

As we all know that today Generation is known as Facebook Generation where children from the age of 13 to Old Folks about the age of 113 are on facebook.

In this article i would bring up the aspect of how you have to use Facebook and LinkedIn to create a Public Profile so that can help you to connect people to whom you resemble and that can help you professionally as well as personally and even help you to prosper and share knowledge.

Let’s Start with Social Network GIANT FACEBOOK

Introduction: - Facebook is a Social Network web application that allows you to connect, share and create apps for personal and business use and with its chat utility it has the power of instant messaging as well, but there is lot that we are missing on this giant venture.

80 % of educated population is on Facebook as per an Independent survey and you might one amongst them but have you thought that how can Facebook be productive for your personal and public profile instead of just uploading, sharing Photos updating status, Posting to the wall etc.There is lot to learn about this SN Giant where you can have public Identity that will help you to connect to the people of your belonging and avoid spam and unneeded connections.

To create a Public Identity on Facebook where even people who are not in your friendlist would like to subscribe to your News Feed i.e. they will be updated on what you post.Lets start with DO’s and Don’ts.

There are people who keep everything public or private it is very Important to maintain a balance between both so that you can maintain personal and professional connections without hassle.

DO’s and Don’ts on Facebook that will help to stop needless connection on Facebook.

·         Profile Picture: - Always keep your own profile picture and keep the Profile album Visibility to “only me”. This will only show the active profile picture and not the entire album, this will help people to know you and connect to you,fake profile picture will be soon banned from facebook to cut down fake accounts.

·       Your Personal Info : -

1.      Work and Education: - Should be visible to Friends or Friends of Friends and not public. This will help you to build connection to people of your likeliness in terms of work profile.

2.      Living in: - This should be visible to only you so that you can keep your Home safe.

3.      Relationship: - This should be only visible to you and your partner.Never reveal on facebook to whom you are in relationship with untill you get committed i.e. Married.

4.      Family List: - This should be only visible to you and your family members.

5.      History by Year: - This should be only visible to you because it resembles you personally and even if you want to display this  just keep to selected personalities.

6.      About You:- This should be always public and it should contain what you do and what you want to do and how you connect so that this can help your friends to know about you much better and can help you in your professional aspect.Over here you will ask me a Question why I should maintain this in my about you section because people now-a-days scrutinze resumes with your facebook profiles.

7.      Basic Info :- Contains your Birthday,Sex,Intrested in, Relationship Status and Languages you know, this part completely depends upon if you are comfortable people wishing on your Facebook timeline keep the visibility to your friends and not public.

8.      Contact Info: - This area on your profile is very sensitive and should be taken care of its privacy level, I would suggest keep the visibility to only you.

9.      Favorite Quotations: - You should always write down your emotions when you need this is the place where you can do that, a nice one liner will tell what attitude you have.

This was just about the profile and if you maintain these visiblity modes you will definitely cut down needless connection. There is one way to restrict people to search you by your name is to keep your profile search option to only friends of friends so that apart from mutual friends no one can search you except if they have your email address.

Posting on Facebook

Wall of Facebook is the best thing that ever happened to facebook and that’s correct, if you want that people should know you, keep posting updates on facebook that resembles any current affairs, some good thoughts invented by you just don’t copy and paste from web this will help you to interact and improve your com skills as well.

Uploading Pics on Facebook

You should always keep your Photo Albums visibility as per the album requirements for e.g.: if you want to share your Birthday Moments you can keep the album visibility to that people who were present on that moment and so that they can re-call the days and if the album is related to your hidden talents keep it public and check how many people you can win over so that this can increase your profile’s eligiblity.The same goes with videos.

Creating Apps on Facebook :-

If you have programming skills you can create an App connect it to Facebook for free and create a Fan Page for it and get Likes and eventually give you business this is way you can also make money from facebook. One thing facebook will not pay you to create apps on facebook this is for your own business.

Writing Notes on Facebook

This is the best place to make your public identity for professional relationships, if you think you can write an article on something go ahead and stroke the keys down and see how many people like and comment on it, even one of your non friend likes or comments on it, you have done it and then make a habit of it. One more thing restrict your friend list and unfriend those who hardly talk to you when you and him/her are online

One more thing do not reveal where are you heading to like, do not update status if you are travelling to outside your area, you can update once you have come back, this is the biggest mistake people make and then face severe consequences.

This was just a small note on how you should use Social network for personal and professional use. People will question why I chose FACEBOOK to write on, because it is famous or most used, that’s not the case the real reason behind this even Companies have started scrutinizing facebook profiles after you have given interviews and check how is this guy in maintaining relationship, if he cannot handle e-network so how he can handle work pressure.

Last but not the least that is very crucial avoid adding people from work environment because you come to facebook to enjoy and to talk work, so it is better not to connect to people from work environment so that you can peacefully be away from office work.

Conclusion: - I hope you will give it a shot and observe the changes there is lot to write about FACEBOOK and it will never end………so stay tuned…..I Leave it on you to decide is it a boon or Curse…….

Author,

Raj.Trivedi

http://kcwithfun.blogspot.in