There are going to be more critics than fans on the subject of perils of social networking. However, there are three sides to every argument: The conservative (leftist), progressive and the truth.
Social networking is the fastest growing industry. I finally gave in to social networking a few weeks ago and have been addicted to it. I have not yet reached the crossover stage to term this unproductive. The expectation to reply to a wall, tweet, or buzz, is analogous to being online on an IM at workplace. This begs the question how an entity balances this raging technology. Research indicates that 75% of the workforce accesses their Social Networking (SN) sites during work time. Blocking access to SN is a common practice. This is not a solution though. This is a hassle to administrators who have to add more proxies to the blacklist each day.
Nothing propagates faster than a tweet these days. Till recently celebrities were being attacked by traditional media for tweeting so much. Now twitter is the media everyone's quoting. While SN provides huge advantages in finding old pals, lost relatives, job opportunities, and life partners (yeah!), you are exposed to strangers (stalkers), ton of spam, and false profiles. Bad publicity is supposed to be worse than none, excepting the folks on the silver screen.
One has to treat acess to the social networking sites just like they treat access to their bank accounts. Usage of best practises like not revealing personal information publically should be the amongst the top priorities.
None of the popular SN sites are all sunshine and completely foolproof. Some of them with a little negligence on behalf of the individual could prove dangerous. A little too much to reval on this social networking account;-)
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