Social Networking

Social Networking


Social networking has many pros but also cons. One of the pros of a social network is that it's a good opportunity to spread your work broadly across the internet so that people all over the world can see it. It could be anything from art work, photography, a performance or graphic work, social networks allow you to get feedback on it and gather different opinions. The internet allows you, potentially, to turn a hobby into a profession, as the rest of the population that has social networking sites can bring up your 'views', 'likes' etc and you could be recognised. Places like 'Youtube', millions of people everyday upload videos of them 'Vlogging', singing, making hair and makeup tutorials etc for everyone else to watch. You can also earn money off of the videos you make if you turn it into a career to upload videos.

However, like I said, there are many cons of social networking. You can gain good feedback on your work but you can also receive negative and sometimes rude feedback and comments. There are people on the internet that deliberately go to people's videos to abuse the person, people like this are commonly known as 'internet trolls' and this is a definite con because people deliver abuse on a regular basis to people trying to get their point across on a social network, or uploading a video or even just on personal pictures that you put on to your profile.

These are the most known social networking sites where you can upload your work:

- Facebook

- Twitter

- Tumblr

- Youtube

- Blogger

- Flickr

I think that Youtube and Tumblr are the best two websites you can use to put your work onto the internet. My reasons for this is because, firstly, on Youtube, it's so popular that most of the population are on it, therefore if you upload a video, because it's a website used solely for sharing videos, you're more likely to get views on your video and feedback, it also spreads extremely quickly as you can share  Youtube videos on all other social networking sites. Secondly, I think Tumblr is a fantastic website to share primary images if you're interested in Photography, you can tag the images you share to your followers. If someone searched the same word you used as a tag, your picture would come up and people can then re-blog your photo to their followers and it seems to me the quickest way for your images to be seen.

http://thisisgen0cid3.tumblr.com/photography *sorry for the swearing*

I've uploaded some of my photography to Tumblr to illustrate my point of social networking sites being convenient for people that want to make sure their work is seen.