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How useful has social media being to you in real life?

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I have participated in social networks since 2006. I blog and contribute to Q&A features on several sites for 5 principal reasons:

  1. It allows the participant to provide insight in solving the difficulties of others; always a satisfying achievement, dovetailing nicely with my volunteer work.

  2. The manner in which a response is worded conveys personal expression, opinion, and insight to others who may wish to team, counter with a disagreement or pass on your reference to others; all healthy forms of communication.

  3. Ratings features allow evaluation of responses by a large peer group (to say the least).

  4. With the growth of the sites and international participation increasing dramatically, the networking provides insights into perspectives from other nations and cultures; a valuable input in the wired global economy these days.

  5. The historical record of questions and answers is searched regularly by a large, world-wide community and draws others to profiles and web sites long after the initial dialogue has occurred.

I evaluate other net-workers for consistency. I value the participants who realize these are huge and open forums and who keep an open mind to input.

I do not value narrow minded use of these features for exclusively personal or business gain, control freak attitudes, and those who delete answers or their questions because they disagree with the responses they are getting or are not getting what they perceive to be desirable results.

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Social Media is average in data-solutions and sharing; it is often used towards social etc.-causes by those who cannot and/or do not want to involve in real-life situates.

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Via social media, I have made so much quality friends in my professional circle. It avails me the opportunity to network socially with anybody, anywhere.

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