Google Drive

            Released on April 24, 2012, Google Drive is an open source program that has a lot of file storage and synchronization. This service is provided by Google. Google Drive is the home of Google Docs, which offers editing on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and much more. Google Drive is a huge part in the communication of today’s society and helps to connect people to one another. Like other technology, Google Drive can be used negatively and positively in many different areas.

            Google Drive can be used in business, news, and entertainment. Google Drive allows a business to access their files anywhere, bring their work to life, buy what they need, and grow flexibly. Google Drive gives businesses access to their work from anywhere, including Macs, PCs, mobile devices, and on the web. Changes one makes to a document are automatically saved to the Drive, and other devices. This is positive because it allows businesses to have access to their work at all times and makes it easier to receive changes employees may make. This is negative because it can cause one to become obsessed with work. Google Drive allows businesses to share files or folders with individuals, their entire team, customers, or partners. Multiple people are able to work on a document at the same time. On the positive side, this connects employees to employees, businesses to customers, etc. Also, it allows businesses to see what others are editing. On the negative side, files can accidentally be shared with people they are not supposed to be shared with, such as competitors. Google Drive gives businesses a free 30 GB of storage for documents, spreadsheets, and slides. On the positive side, a lot can be stored on Google Drive. On the negative side, a business could run out of space and have to pay $4.00 a month for 20 GB. Google Drive can be used in news and entertainment. It allows one to share articles about the news, and other news related files to other people. There is nothing negative about this, in my opinion. Google Drive can also be used in entertainment. It allows one to share links, videos, and photos with others. Entertainment businesses are able to share certain documents, such as ads or scripts, to the rest of their business, and customers. This is positive because it connects the entertainment industry to others in the business, and outside the business. This can be negative because if an entertainment industry accidentally shares their files with a competitor or someone helping a competitor, their ideas can be stolen.

            Google Drive can be used in can be used recreationally and socially. Google Drive allows one to sync or upload media files. One can preview and play a video. On the positive side, this can entertain one when they are bored. Recreationally, one can go on Google Drive and entertain themselves by watching videos they have saved to their Drive, or others have shared with them. On the negative side, this makes one reliant on the Internet to have fun or to stop boredom. This minimizes face to face contact and can cause one to spend excess time on the computer, which is a negative outcome. Google Drive can also be used socially. Google Drive can connect many individuals through the sharing of documents, spreadsheets, media files, and slides. This is positive because one is able to easily share their work with others. Students could use this to share their projects or homework with other students. This can be negative too because when sharing documents, others can edit the work that it contains. Also, files can be shared with the wrong people. Recently, Google announced that it will be releasing a social feature known as “group chat” for Google Drive. Group chats can be started in Google Drive with a single click and allows everyone in the file to be messaged. This is positive because it allows groups of people to communicate about a certain project or work they are working on. There is nothing negative about this feature.

            Google Drive is a large part of how present-day society communicates and connects with one another. It has many uses that have positive effects, but also contains uses that could lead to negative effects. Google Drive negatively and positively functions in many areas, including business, social life, entertainment, news, and recreational activities.   

           

 

http://www.google.com/drive/about.html

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.html#drive

 

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423694?hl=en

 

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/141702?hl=en

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/04/google-drive-receives-new-social-features/

Facebook and Google+

        Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is now the world’s largest social network. Facebook requires a registration, and one may create a personal profile. Facebook allows one to add friends, exchange messages, receive automatic notifications, and may join common-interest groups. Google+, a great tool for many things including communication, has gradually been moving towards being one of the most active social networks since its launch in 2011. Google+ brings people together within the context of numerous Google services.

            Facebook and Google+ can be used in business. Facebook has many features that can be used by businesses, including the reach generator, cover photo, and pinning and highlighting. The reach generator is a premium application that allows one to reach and engage up to 75% of one’s friends and fans. On the positive side, businesses can connect with many different people and advertise their business and products. On the negative side, businesses have to pay in order to get their marketing messages to their target audiences now. A cover photo allows a business to show off their brand image. On the positive side, it provides an opportunity for businesses to make a good first impression with prospects and visitors. On the negative side, a business is not allowed to include price or purchase information, contact details or any calls to action. Pinning and highlighting is another feature that is both negative and positive in business. On the positive side, it allows businesses to draw the visitor’s attention toward important marketing messages and allows businesses to create visual ads for pinned posts and pixel ads for highlighted posts. On the negative side, you can only pin one point and cannot combine pinning and highlighting. Google+ allows businesses to get found across Google. When customers search certain things on Google, the results may include posts, photos, and videos from a business’s Google+ page. This can also be negative because a business’s competitors may also be shown in search. Google+ allows businesses to get face-to-face with customers. A business can talk with its customers on Google+ and get feedback.

            Facebook and Google+ can be used socially and recreationally. Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site. Facebook allows one to create a personal profile, add friends, exchange messages, update statuses, receive automatic notifications, and join common-interest groups. This can be both positive and negative. On the positive side, Facebook allows one to connect and communicate with family and friends, not only locally, but internationally. Facebook also allows one to meet people with common interests. On the negative side, Facebook allows one to be bullied. This could lead to depression, anxiety, and in some cases, suicide. Facebook also decreases face to face interaction since many people spend excessive amounts of time on Facebook. Facebook can also be used recreationally. When a person is bored, Facebook allows them to update their status about it, see what their friends are up to, listen to music, play games such as FarmVille, and check up on their favorite TV shows. This is positive because it entertains the person. It is negative because it makes one rely on the Internet to have fun.  Google+ can also be used socially. Google+ has been gradually moving toward being one of the most active social networks. On the positive side, it allows one to share ideas and personal news, post photos and videos, stay in touch, play games, plan things, send birthday wishes, do homework with friends, communicate with relatives and friends, review books, recommend restaurants, and support causes. On the negative side, embarrassing or damaging information can be posted, cyberbullying, inappropriate contact with adults and social aggression is a risk, and one can become caught up in the drama of the site. This can be harmful to other activities in the lives of people. Google+ can also be used recreationally. Google+ allows one to play games, such as Bug Village and CityVille, and listen to music. Like Facebook, it is positive because it entertains a person, but negative because it makes one rely on the Internet to have fun.

            Facebook and Google+ can be used for news and entertainment. The home page of Facebook provides the user with important news about things occurring in our society. Also, news networks, such as CNN and Fox News, have Facebook pages. These news pages update Facebook users on the latest news. This is positive because it allows one to be connected to the news. There is nothing negative about this. Facebook can also be used for entertainment. The home page of Facebook provides the user with ads for different TV shows, games, music and so on. Certain TV shows, including Pretty Little Liars and Awkward, have Facebook pages that update Facebook users on special showings, sneak peeks, interesting facts, and many other things. This is positive. On the negative side, it could reveal spoilers. Google+ can be used for news and entertainment. One is able to use the search bar to search for different TV shows and find the latest news. This is negative and positive for the same reasons as Facebook.

            Facebook and Google+ have become huge parts of life in society. These social networking sites have many negative and positive uses in many different areas. Facebook, in my opinion, is better than Google+. Google+ allows many others to search certain things and find a person, which is not very safe. Facebook includes all the features of Google+, but it is safer in my eyes.

           

http://mashable.com/category/facebook/

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

http://www.martinshervington.com/what-is-google-plus/

http://socialmediatoday.com/edwin-huertas/476084/how-facebooks-new-features-affect-your-business

http://www.google.com/+/business/

http://www.lakesidecares.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145:the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-effects-of-facebook&catid=44:blog&Itemid=154

http://www.connectsafely.org/pdfs/plusparents.pdf

-I went on Facebook website to find certain entertainment shows that have their own page, and advertisements, etc.

LinkedIn

            LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional. This social networking site came into existence in 2002 in the living room of Reid Hoffman, the co-founder. It was officially launched on May 5, 2003. It builds one’s professional identity online and allows one to stay in touch with colleagues and classmates. LinkedIn allows for the discovery of professional opportunities, business deals, and new ventures. On LinkedIn, one is able to get the latest news, inspiration, and insights that one may need to excel in what they do.

            LinkedIn can be used in business. LinkedIn’s main purpose is to connect the world’s professionals, and allows access to people, jobs, news, updates, and insights. This is positive because it allows professionals to become more productive and successful and help them excel in what they do. The search feature, much like Google’s search feature, allows other to find certain businesses. LinkedIn gives businesses exposure to the people that are searching for products or services. LinkedIn allows for connections between people and businesses that may not be able to be reached by any other way. This increases the exposure of a business, which is a positive aspect of this network. LinkedIn allows businesses to post regular status updates, join in on active group participation, send messages and invitations to those in one’s network and to other group members, and answer questions. This can be both positive and negative. Posting regular status updates can interest a business’s target customers and clients. Active group participation and sending messages to those in one’s network to other group members can tarnish the reputation of a business. It is easy to spam people, and that could toss businesses out of certain groups and annoy customers.

            LinkedIn can be used for entertainment and news. One way to successfully break into the entertainment industry is by connecting and communicating on LinkedIn. LinkedIn can find the right professionals, executives and experts in your category of the entertainment business. Those who want to be musicians can connect with other musicians and record label executives through LinkedIn.  Those who want to be actors or actresses can connect and communicate with other actors or actresses through LinkedIn. This can be both positive and negative. On the positive side, one has the opportunity to expose themselves to find jobs in the areas they want to work in. On the negative side, this may not always work. LinkedIn can build a reputation, but also tarnish it. One is able to search entertainment in the search box. This exposes different entertain companies to different people. This is positive for the companies because this allows them to expose more and new people to their entertainment business. LinkedIn can also be used for news. LinkedIn allows people to get the latest news. It has a feature called “LinkedIn News,” which provides one with the most important articles about their company, competitors, and industry. The news module collects news about companies that one has listed on their profile. On the positive side, a company can keep track of their industry and competitors. On the negative side, competitors can do the same.

            LinkedIn can be used socially. Although LinkedIn is a social networking site, like Twitter or Facebook, it is not used recreationally.  A person who uses LinkedIn most likely will use it for business, not for fun. LinkedIn is a social networking site that has features that can be both positive and negative. LinkedIn connects and allows communication between over 225 million members in over 200 countries around the world. On the positive side, socializing beyond the one’s limited area helps build a powerful community. It adds a great diversity to a person’s colleagues and friends by branching out and communicating with new people not only across the country, but globally too. Another positive aspect LinkedIn has socially is it gives people with similar interests the chance to meet others who they may never have had the chance to meet. On the negative side, LinkedIn can tarnish the reputation of an individual. This may decrease or completely stop people from connecting with that individual. Also, when posting status updates and actively participating in group chats, one may begin to spam others. This can annoy people, which decreases or stops communication. LinkedIn is also another social networking site that may decrease face to face interaction and communication.

            LinkedIn is a large part of communication and connection in today’s society. It can be used positively and negatively in all aspects of society, including business, social, entertainment, news, and recreational.

 

           

 

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=what_is_linkedin

http://www.linkedin.com/about-us

http://homebusiness.about.com/od/socialmediamarketing/a/How-To-Use-Linkedin-for-Marketing.htm

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/network-linkedin-break-entertainment-industry-29502.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2011/09/13/linkedin-busting-8-damaging-myths-about-what-it-can-do-for-your-career/

http://www.linkedin.com/today/

http://learn.linkedin.com/news/

Twitter

Twitter is a social networking service that allows people to send and read text messages that are up to 140 characters. These text messages are called “tweets.” To post tweets, one has to register for a twitter account. Unregistered users can only read tweets. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. By July 2006, the micro blogging site was launched and quickly gained worldwide popularity. Twitter was invented as a way for individuals, using an SMS service, to communicate with a small group. Twitter allows an individual to update their status to let others know what they are doing.

            Twitter can be used for business. Twitter allows businesses to have real time interaction with their customers, which can be negative and positive. Businesses are able to “fire fight” before something gets out of hand and damages their brand online. Sometimes, things do get out of hand. The groups of people who tweet are usually a little older, wiser, and may be more affluent. This is the perfect audience for many businesses looking to promote themselves on the internet. McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, and Starbucks are a few examples of businesses using Twitter to promote themselves. Unlike Facebook, Twitter allows businesses to promote their products without the message getting lost in the cluttered activity. Twitter can provide feedback for businesses, which can help the businesses improve their products. Also, Twitter allows brands to put their company’s message straight into a consumer’s pocket in any location.

            Twitter is mostly used socially. Twitter is a social networking site! Twitter involves public communication by allowing people to send, read, retweet and reply to tweets. One can also communicate with friends and others through direct messaging on Twitter. This can be both negative and positive. Twitter allows one to say whatever is on their minds, which can start fights. If an account is not on private, anyone is allowed to view it. This may have negative consequences if what someone is tweeting is not appropriate, or rude. Accounts that are not private also allow for communication with strangers, which can lead to very negative things. Although Twitter can be negative socially, it can also be used positively. Twitter allows for communication between friends. One can let others know what they are feeling or doing.

            Twitter can be used for news and entertainment. Twitter has a tab called “discover.” When one clicks on this tab, they are able to browse through trending topics. This tab also allows one to find stories and news for a person based on their connections, location, and even language. This is negative and positive. The news on Twitter may not always be one hundred percent true, so it is not a very reliable source for news and information. On the other hand, Twitter makes spreading news quicker and easier. A person can follow actual twitters that are based mainly about the news. CNN and Fox 5 News have twitters that allow for the passage of news. Also, a person can follow their favorite celebrities or restaurants, and find out news about them very quickly and easily. Miley Cyrus and Olive Garden are examples of celebrities and restaurants on Twitter.

            Twitter can be used for entertainment. The shows a person watches can be found on Twitter. They use Twitter to market their show. Pretty Little Liars is an example of a show that can be found on Twitter. On the positive side, this allows someone to find out special showings, sneak peeks, and many other things. On the negative side, Twitter can reveal spoilers. Twitter can also be used recreationally. When someone is bored, Twitter is there for the person to tweet about how they are bored, see what their friends are doing, and entertain them. This is positive because it can entertain someone. It’s also negative because it makes someone reliable on the Internet to have fun.

        Twitter is a large part of communication and connection in today’s society. Twitter has many positive uses, but also has negative uses. Twitter functions in many areas including business, social, entertainment, news, and recreational. 

 

 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/the-ongoing-story-twitter-and-writing.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#History

http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280

http://socialmediatoday.com/dom-bradbury/280032/twitter-business

 

http://mrhenningsbca.blogspot.com/p/current-trends-in-technological.html

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/you-can-get-twitter-dms-from-anyone/

http://webtrends.about.com/od/howtoguides/ss/How-To-Use-Twitter_2.htm

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