Social Networking: Beyond Personal Space

Social Networking sites do more than just connecting you to your old and new friends, exposing you to dangers of privacy in personal space, and opening avenues to a number of cyber crimes; these sites now help you in your career side too. Communities created on sites like ‘Orkut’ and ‘Pagalguy.com’, etc now help you to crack exams, answer your queries related to choices of courses, colleges and specializations, etc. communities like “crack CAT exams” etc have been of great help to many CAT aspirants, who are now able to put up questions to a wider audience and receive answers from diverse perspectives. Also those who have cleared the exams before or are practicing professionals from the field are able to guide these aspirants quite successfully.

Students from various fields, courses, colleges, create communities where perspective student can get in touch with experienced seniors and seek their advice. These sites give an informal yet impersonal space for interaction among seniors and juniors of institutes.
Often professors and instructors drop-by on these sites in order to interact with their students in a more personalized environment and even take up questions and queries of aspirants and perspective students.

I know that most of us might have used the social networking websites to connect with our seniors and college at an interpersonal level, when we were planning to enter any new college. It not only helped us in cracking the entrance exams, and in understanding the college and the course better, but also in contacting our seniors (for notes and guidance).

So next time you wish to give the social networking site a pass as another interference with personal space, then remember that it goes much beyond that. Social networking helps you in making informed decisions on your career and other choices. They help you in preparing to crack important exams and move to a professional space.