Using Social Networking Sites Wisely

By. Jam Mangulamas

Do you know how to use internet? I bet you are. Internet is really cool because it provides a very useful data. With just one click, all stuffs you’re looking for are displayed in your computer monitors as fast as milliseconds (well it depends on your internet connection). Students and even researchers use internet as quicker way of researching things related to schooling such as homework. Compared to older years that students sometime use much of their time in libraries reading lot of books.  I’m not saying that libraries aren't good, infact libraries are very good source of information, and much more, it is accurate.  But as a student with limited time, internet is the fastest way of finding what you are looking for.

As technology become more sophisticated and more revolutionized lots of people from all sorts of the world are seemingly accessible to it. Some countries offer a free internet charged on there people. However, here in the Philippines though internet aren’t t offer free,  people just only need a small bunch of penny and alas! they are connected to what they called “cyber world of internet”.

Social Networking sites, such as facebook, myspace and twitter are among the most famous sites that anyone is accessing. In fact, Philippines alone are number 17 among 20 countries who are very active in internet. Social Networking sites are created for the people to express there idea and delivered current events.

TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS # Country or Region Population, 2011 Est Internet Users Year 2000 Internet Users Latest Data Penetration (% Population) World % Users 1 China 1,336,718,015 22,500,000 485,000,000 36.3 % 23.0 % 2 United States 313,232,044 95,354,000 245,000,000 78.2 % 11.6 % 3 India 1,189,172,906 5,000,000 100,000,000 8.4 % 4.7 % 4 Japan 126,475,664 47,080,000 99,182,000 78.4 % 4.7 % 5 Brazil 203,429,773 5,000,000 75,982,000 37.4 % 3.6 % 6 Germany 81,471,834 24,000,000 65,125,000 79.9 % 3.1 % 7 Russia 138,739,892 3,100,000 59,700,000 43.0 % 2.8 % 8 United Kingdom 62,698,362 15,400,000 51,442,100 82.0 % 2.4 % 9 France 65,102,719 8,500,000 45,262,000 69.5 % 2.1 % 10 Nigeria 155,215,573 200,000 43,982,200 28.3 % 2.1 % 11 Indonesia 245,613,043 2,000,000 39,600,000 16.1 % 1.9 % 12 Korea 48,754,657 19,040,000 39,440,000 80.9 % 1.9 % 13 Iran 77,891,220 250,000 36,500,000 46.9 % 1.7 % 14 Turkey 78,785,548 2,000,000 35,000,000 44.4 % 1.7 % 15 Mexico 113,724,226 2,712,400 34,900,000 30.7 % 1.7 % 16 Italy 61,016,804 13,200,000 30,026,400 49.2 % 1.4 % 17 Philippines 101,833,938 2,000,000 29,700,000 29.2 % 1.4 % 18 Spain 46,754,784 5,387,800 29,093,984 62.2 % 1.4 % 19 Vietnam 90,549,390 200,000 29,268,606 32.3 % 1.4 % 20 Argentina 41,769,726 2,500,000 27,568,000 66.0 % 1.3 % TOP 20 Countries 4,578,950,118 275,424,200 1,601,772,290 35.0 % 75.9 % Rest of the World 2,351,105,036 85,561,292 508,993,520 21.6 % 24.1 % Total World - Users 6,930,055,154 360,985,492 2,110,765,810 30.5 % 100.0 % NOTES: (1) World Internet User Statistics were updated for June 30, 2011. (2) Additional data for individual countries and regions may be found by clicking each country name. (3) The most recent user information comes from data published by Nielsen Online, International Telecommunications Union, Official country reports, and other trustworthy research sources. (6) Data from this site may be cited, giving due credit and establishing an active link back to Internet World Stats. Copyright © 2000 - 2011, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved.

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Meanwhile, if we did not   take into consideration what don’ts and do’s in Social Networking Sites that that the user is post on his/her account there might be some possibility that conflict /damaged may arise, physically and mentally.  According to Ted Failon on his program in ABS-CBN “FAILON NGAYON” a young teenage girl in the late 20’s raped by a married guy in his 20’s. Investigation said. The victim met the suspect while having chatting in one of the social networking sites. The victim agreed to meet the suspect without knowing that the guy had bad motives towards her.

Here are some tips that you can do to avoid this thing to happen in the near future. If you aware then you may leave this page, if not and even if you aware and want have some more tips then this is for us.

Don’ts:

Do not upload a videos and photos you don’t own as criminal cases may charge you.

Do not upload videos and photos undesgraceful to others if this is not needed. Remember what you gonna uploads there are stored forever and anyone are available to view its contents.

Do not post anything if you are intended to annoy other. Remember that cyber world is not far away from real world.

Do not copy the works of other (copy and paste work) as plagiarism may charge you.

Do’s:

You should only upload videos and photos you owned, or if you intended make sure that the copyright owner allowed you to do so.

Think before post any status on your account.

Accept only people you know

Do not meet if you don’t exactly know who they are.

Do not reply their message if you don’t know them well.

As what Howie Severino, GMA7 reporters and Editor in GMA7 online says “THINK BEFORE YOU CLiCK”