THE SOCIAL NETWORK - SMART PHONE - My Take

As I was reading newspaper on last Saturday (29 Oct, NST) under 1Klassifieds page, the title of the discussion captured my eye.  THE SOCIAL NETWORK. I somehow got occupied the whole day (preparing for my EMBA mid-term exam the next day ....he..he )and save the paper for my 4th entry to this blog. On exam day...what? The same title appear in Question 4. I feel like crying. Why am I not reading the article on Saturday when I found it ? Well, cannot allow my self to regret for too long....mid-term exam is now over ( Dr Norzaidi, please have mercy on me !!!!).  Lesson learned - DON'T PROCRASTINATE...


ARTICLE 1

I have gathered the positive impact of that social network can contribute to a person. 
1) For an individual, you may find others who have similar interest, to make friends and build business.

Six Degree of Separation, Source: Wikipedia

2) For an enterprise, you can lower the cost of advertising, building credibility as you connect with the prospects on a personal level, and expanding the circle of you know through Six Degrees of Separation**.


The article is based on an interview between the writer, Mr Gerald Chuah and Mr Vincent Cheng, Principal Consultant and CEO of JeVince Solutions, an expert on online coaching  programmes and a founder of 3 successful Facebook Community Fan Page, namely Malaysian Business Network (20,000 members), Global Internet Marketing network (24,000 members) and GlobalInternetMarketingNetwork (13,000 members). 


ARTICLE 2

On the same day, I also read another article from Utusan Malaysia title ` Antisosial kerana Blackberry' by a young Malaysian artist named Neelofa. She wrote about the effect of the smart phone Blackberry (BB) that has stormed the Malaysian society lately.

Among her concern are:-

• BB brought the distance closer
• BB also brought the `close'  to a distance.  She shared her experienced during last hari raya in Pasir Mas when all her family members are so busy on BBM (blackberry messages) and left her grandparents sad and ignored.
• BB has `charmed' many people and to the extend that UAE and Saudi Arabia has put a banned on BB.  The exclusivity communication and transaction over BB that channeled straight to the HQ in Canada might trigger so many negative activities by some quarters.

MY TAKE
On the positive note, Social Networking is a good medium to promote YOU  as an expert in the community you founded.  Communities Creates Opportunities.
On the other direction, it can also provide negative impact for example the teenager that spend more time on facebook, friendster or twitter than reading books, study or even helps with household chores, or staff in office that spend on chatting and facebook or even on handphone in every opportunity until neglecting the works.
To me, the most important is the balance that we take between technology and other important matters in life.

LESSON OF THE DAY
I have picked up new knowledge today, Six degrees of separation. 

** Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare, source: wikipedia).