Factor 3

Initially, Social Networks were intended for people to connect with each other, keep in touch with friends you can’t regularly meet and know what’s going on in their lives, share information, photos, interesting stuff and much more. Simply put, social networks emerged as everything it took to relieve day to day monotony and bond with family and friends.

After some time, another aspect that highlighted the use of social networks came forward, when business professionals thought of it as a good way to promote their products/services and target those who were interested. Although this was a good thing considering the fact that social networks were also planned to connect people of same nature, looking out for the same things, but were strangers. This made social networks a platform for people having same interest but no interaction, to communicate with each other and fulfill their requirements.

But no one knows how this simple plan turned into a rotten marketing practice, and now it has taken the social networks by storm. If you happen to have an account on any of the social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, StumbledUpon etc. you must know exactly what I’m talking about. Yes! You got me…I’m talking about unknown friendship requests you get, I’m talking about that new friend you just added whose constantly filling your profile by advertising unwanted products, I’m talking about the unasked emails you receive in your mailbox with reference to your social network subscription, and so much more!

What’s all this nonsense anyways? In simple terms, we call it “misuse”. Social networks are being badly exploited by many SEO experts and marketing professionals. But the worst thing is that these so-called specialists do not even know whom to target and how! One free of cost tip for all you SEO’s and internet marketers would be to create a proper group regarding the entity you are promoting and then target the audience whom you think will be interested and ask them to visit that group. You can also join all the groups that relate to you and then add connections.

This will not irritate the users as the thing you are marketing will be of their interest (which you have identified earlier through target market analysis) and it will broaden your chances of getting some solid customers. This will also diminish the misuse of social networks, and will improve the productivity of it.

There is a dispute among web marketers about which marketing method is more effective—social networks or search engine optimization? With the growing hype of social networks, many believe it works wonders and supersedes SEO, but the truth is quite opposite. So, without going into further details I’ll explain how.
Take it like this: when people create a profile on social networks they don’t do it to purchase certain products and services, they do it for relaxation and to keep in touch with those whom they have lost regular contact with. But when a person enters search phrases in the search engines, they are definitely seeking out for something. This evidently shows that a social network user is less likely to respond to your marketing message as compared to the search engine user.

So all you internet marketers bombarding social networks with useless marketing advertisements, take a moment to consider whether it’s giving you something in return or not, or is it just harming your credibility even more? Utilizing social networks is not a bad idea, but only if you know the right tactics, made at the right time, and on the right targets. Otherwise you’ll just end up wasting your time for no good! To know more about how social networks work and how can you positively use them to promote your business, contact SeoGP. We excel in providing complete SEO and internet marketing services that will get you recognition in the SERP’s as well as among your potentials.


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Factors of misuse #2

As far as I concerned about the problem. I can conclude basically there are two main factors that lead to the misuse of social network. The first will be under personal problem and the second is about the law. These two factors often work together and you will know why the problem is getting more rampant.

Let's go for the personal problem first.

Although it's a cliche, but the neglect of parents is always the factor that lead to many wrongdoing. As you know, the economy is not as good as last time and many countries around are currently suffering from the economic crisis. Greece will be the classic example right now. Therefore, it's not surprised that many parents are forced to work for double income. As the result, the children are neglected. So what would the children do to overcome the feeling of solitude? Surely friendship will be the only salvation for these pitiful children. As you know, the influence of friends can be sometime even greater than the family. This marks the beginning of the misuse of social network. As you can see there are many groups in facebook are for spreading hatred purpose. And some of the members are sociopath. This people use social network as a mean to voice out their own "philosophy" and many of the "followers" are actually those who lacking of family love. There's a group I found in facebook about disgust of Malay. Most of them are primary and secondary schools' students. They scold as harsh as they can and the members from the group like each others' comments and add more nastier words to enhance somebody's word.

That concludes for the first part of personal problems. And now I will move on to the next. It's still under personal problem but not as often happen as the first one. People often say 90s are brainless and indeed 90s are outstanding in the negative sense. They are often the one who use social network as a mean to gain popularity but often in the way that is against the social norm. Sharing nude on social network is no longer something fresh and I believe it happens everyday at everywhere. Some of the cases are framed but more are volunteer. Besides that, there was guy who announced for suicide on facebook recently. His page was being liked for 50,000 times in just one to two days. Though most of the people who liked the page is for scolding purpose, but that guy has fulfilled his objective which is to gain popularity with the public's concern.

In my opinion, these two factors will be the popular one under personal problem. But there's surely still more and some of them is yet to be investigated. I will just briefly talk about some other personal factors here. Revenge is surely another popular factor that lead to the misuse of social network. Hacking, upload nude of someone,substitute someone on a naked body and share it on social network are example of revenge. Recently, there's case about a high school teacher confessed his wrongdoing on his facebook. At the same time, there were number of facebook users who admitted to be his students told the truth on their facebook respectively that they had been molested by the high school teacher before. Rumors about the high school teacher's account was hacked and that those who admitted to be his students and once was molested by him were imposture are spreading around. Nobody knows the truth for now. But one thing we should learn from here which is facebook could be a grave for your reputation if someone intended to do so. Accusation can be faked, those who pointed the finger of accusation can be faked as well, who knows they are the same person.

That concludes for the first factors. And now we should go on with the second factor which is the law.

As we know, there's no specific law to deal with the problem or the loophole has become a big resistant to overcome the problem of misusing the social network. Like what I said in the beginning, the personal factors often work with the law factors in making the problems become more and more rampant. Let say for the case that someone had created a group to spread hatred like anti-Islam. The law enforcement can investigate the case under sabotage racial harmony, but the problem they facing is there are a lot people who joined the group. So can they just catch all of them? Plus the account of the group creator could be created purposely for setting up the group and yet another problem arise which is the tracking of IP. Those who plan accordingly to do something bad could not be that stupid. They might use the computer at cyber cafe for cyber crime. Therefore, it's difficult to stop it. The incompleteness of law, the poor execution of law, the advance technology, and a big group of members who stand on the gray area. The challenge is too great, so it's no wonder why the problems cannot be solved. In contrast, it becomes more and more serious.

In conclusion, it's never the fault of IT product, but the people who misuse them. Social network is like a virtual earth for us. Pollution leads to destruction of the earth/virtual world. Please take care of it together. And remember what goes around comes around.

Cheers,
Ten Wei Keat

Factors of misuse

The popularity of social network
The increasing of user in sosial have lead to the misue of social network. This is because this is a human behaviour where by some user start to think that this is a right place for them to gain their on individual benefit.This users tends to spread rumours,fake information or hacking to gain their own benefit. For example sky lun is one of the example that he spread rumours to gain popularity. This is one of the example of missuse.

The misuse of facebook among Malaysian.

Before we move forward to the first issue that we will discuss later.We should first see some of the cases of misusing social network by Malaysians.

It's surprised the abuse could take in so many forms. Below are various cases with regard to the topic.

The first case will be the "Malaysia's Romeo" who declared a 45-minute suicide countdown on facebook. You can check it here.>

A 45-minute suicide countdown on Facebook continues to touch members’ hearts.

“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart.”

RUSSIAN poet Sergei Esenin wrote this suicide note in his own blood and passed it to his friend the day before he hanged himself.

That was in 1925; imagine what he would have done if he had killed himself today.

When Alviss Kong, 22, decided to take his life after his girlfriend of four months left him last week, he posted a farewell status on his Facebook page together with a teary photo of himself.

The status at 11.15pm read “Count Down For 45 Mins…What should I do in this 45 mins?”

In the ensuing minutes, up to 204 Facebook members “liked” his suicidal status post on his Facebook wall, but no one stopped him or alerted his family on his suicidal intentions.


Alviss: Met a tragic end after countdown.

Only his sister Chelvin Kong, 28, reportedly tried to talk him out of the suicide, but Alviss assured her that he was joking.

A few hours later, his body was found sprawled on a car, fallen from the 14th floor of his apartment building in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

This tragic tale has been getting a lot of media coverage especially in the Chinese press, begging the question – what do you do when someone tells you that he or she wants to commit suicide?

Student Ariel Yong*, 17, believes that many thought that Alviss’ message was a prank and simply played along.

“Sometimes when my friend and I wait for the LRT train, we make stupid jokes about throwing ourselves in front of the train. But we know it’s just a joke. I suppose on Facebook, it is difficult to know what somebody really means unless you are also friends outside.”

She feels this shows the significance of “friend” or “community” on Facebook: “Most are not real friends. My real friends would really know if I am joking or serious or if I am depressed or happy.”

International survey firm TNS last month reported that Malaysians had the most “friends” on Facebook and spent nine hours a day on average surfing the site of more than 500 million members.

Real friends or not, Kim Chua*, 19, hopes Alviss got some comfort from those who responded to his wall posting.

“They may not be his real friends or close friends, but no one wants to die alone,” she says.

The psychology student says studies show that an estimated 12–20% of suicides are accompanied by a note and people write it to ease their pain, not as a cry for help.

Paul Jambunathan, consultant clinical psychologist at Monash University Malaysia and Sunway Medical Centre describes those who “liked” Alviss’ Facebook status as “emotional voyeurs”.

“People love to hear about what is happening to others and how they are suffering,” he says, linking it to the trends in today’s popular culture.

“This culture includes suicide as an option to past history within the family or significant others, movies, lyrics and media sensationalism. They all have an effect that makes suicide an option when really it should never be,” he says.

But ultimately, no one can be blamed for Alviss’ death except himself. It was irresponsible of Alviss to put up the posting on Facebook, says Jambunathan.

“He expected society to be responsible for him. He killed himself because he was depress­ed, and became helpless and hopeless. It is unfair to pin this on the girl when the only person responsible is himself, his choices in life and the kind of friends he kept.”

Jambunathan believes that Alviss might not have jumped if there was any inkling of help or hope.

Consultant psychologist Valerie Jacques agrees that Alviss was deeply depressed and put his hopes in the relationship to make him happier.

“Nothing external will make a person happier when they are depressed from deep inside,” she says.

What is clear – and somewhat comforting – is the notion that love and the way people deal with its ups and downs have not changed over time.

Jambunathan concurs, saying that les affaires du coeur (affairs of the heart) have been known to drive men to “madness.”

He explains that very deep-level emotions are involved from even the early stages of love such as infatuation right to the latter stages of mantaining a functional relationship.

“How angry are you when you are hitting on a girl you have just met, and someone else is doing the same? (Love) evokes and stimulates the very basic and deep-rooted issues in people.

“These emotions lead to aggressive behaviour that can lead people to harming others or themselves,” he says.

This is probably why people act uncharacteristically when love is the core issue at stake. As they say, “love makes the world go round” or on the opposite end “love hurts.”

Jambunathan points out that while suicide seems to be an extreme option, others regularly indulge in self-destructive behaviour because of failures in their relationships. The “broken-hearted” might turn to alcohol to try and forget their relationship or sleep around to make themselves feel better, he adds.

Julia*, 30, remembers when she drove to see her then boyfriend after they had a fight over the phone. She was at a party and had been drinking a lot.

In any other circumstance, she wouldn’t have driven but at that moment she really had to see her boyfriend.

“I had many near misses on the road. I almost drove off a bridge but in the end I arrived at my destination. It was a very stupid thing to do,” she recalls.

She says that while career and financial issues are important, they are not as important as her romantic relationships.

Nazmi Johan*, 35, says that even tough-looking males can be “over-sensitive” when their relationships fail.

“It’s quite funny to see a grown man cry because of a girl but it happens,” he says.

“Love is the biggest seller. In almost every movie, there is always some sort of love element. People always believe that there is someone out there made for them and they will live happily ever after,” he muses.

Gregory Tan* who has been “dumped” a couple of times admits that he felt lost and turned to alcohol when his heart was broken.

“When that “one” person rejects you, it’s as if the whole world is rejecting you,” says Tan.

These days, he tries to be more philosophical about things. “I try to take an ‘everything happens for a reason’ attitude. When I fail at a relationship, I would say to myself that I would find someone more compatible,” he says.

Jacques believes love, not relationships, is a big reason why people consider suicide. In Alviss’s case, she believes that the root problem was that he did not feel loved.

“Even though his family love him dearly, he had a deep belief that no one loved him and so he was not lovable. So, any external sign of rejection or break up can trigger bad feelings,” she says.

*Not their real names

This is not a new thing, but it's quite shocking when more and more people spread the nude in facebook with or without one's permission. Some of them even do this to gain popularity. The news I'd chosen is about the leaked of webcam video of a Malaysian model Jacouelyn Peggy Teoh.>

Personally, I think one of the critical weak point of social network will be it's open registration. With a name and a profile picture, you can be anyone. It's quite common among fans who created a group or fans page for their idol. However, it surely will be problematic if one day you found that someone was simulating you! And this is the case.>

JOHOR BARU: A Facebook page by an individual claiming to be the future wife of Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim has surfaced.

The page, Diari Harian Tunku Mahkota Johore, contained the supposed daily activities of Tunku Ismail an d photographs of him at public events. Besides this, a profile page named Tunku Ismail, claiming to be that of the Tunku Mahkota Johor, had been created.

A police report was lodged on Tuesday. It was learnt that both the page and profile had since been removed from Facebook.

Johor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said police would investigate the matter under the Sedition Act as the individual did not have any connection to the Tunku Mahkota Johor.

Meanwhile, another Facebook page called Persatuan Bangsa Johor, has surfaced asking that the origins of Diari Harian Tunku Mahkota Johore be determined.

“Investigations will be carried out by both state and federal police,” DCP Mohd Mokhtar told pressmen after the monthly assembly at the state police headquarters here yesterday.

He added that there were l imits to what could be said or stated on we bsites.

“Using modern technology to spread untruths or impersonate individuals related to the royal family is unacceptable.

“It is an insult to the royal institution,” he said.

Yet another malignant of social network-hacking! Though the facebook company had tried their best to improve the security system, but it cannot be fully utilized as some of the users don't know about this. Plus, the system is no rival to the hackers if they have the will to hack! >

This case is quite new to me. Fellow readers should be alarmed.>

The drug mule situation is turning “from bad to worse”, says Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Richard Riot Jaem.

KUALA LUMPUR: Social networking site Facebook is fast becoming a hunting ground for fresh drug mules by international syndicates.

The Foreign Ministry is alarmed that more varsity-age Malaysian girls using Facebook were being lured by drug syndicates’ promises of significant rewards to ferry drugs for them, said deputy minister Datuk Richard Riot Jaem.

“Most victims are befriended through Facebook. It (Facebook) can be a good friend. But it’s also a dangerous friend,” Richard told journalists during a courtesy call on Thursday.

Richard said that the ministry had found that most of the victims were befriended by syndicate members of African origin.

He explained that syndicates, after befriending their victims, would offer to pay for ‘holidays’ overseas, usually China, Japan and Latin America.

Some would even offer their victims thousands of ringgit in pocket money to spend on the trip.

The victims would also be asked to meet a ‘friend’ who would be the tour guide at the destination.

“And Nigerians and South Africans were involved in most cases, sad to say,” he said.

Richard added that photos provided by victims of their Facebooks ‘friends’ who asked for help to carry their bags or deliver a ‘gift’ to people in other countries “were not very good looking and black”.

International survey firm TNS last month reported that Malaysians had the most ‘friends’ on Facebook and spent nine hours daily on average surfing the site of more than 500 millions members.

On the Ministry’s response, he said that a weekly programme on RTM was being aired to raise awareness among young people.

“We have a slot on RTM where we provide advice on various issues for youth. But we stress a need for Malaysians to be very cautious when going overseas,” he said.

He also urged the group of 20 local and foreign journalists from the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Uzbekistan and Mongolia under the Malaysian Press Institute’s yearly Fellowship programme to raise awareness of Asians being victimised by international drug syndicates.

Richard said the drug mule situation was turning “from bad to worse”.

He said 785 of 1560 Malaysians arrested overseas since 1991 were drug mules of which 149 were women.

Of those, 70 have been sentenced to death for trafficking of illicit drugs.

The latest case was 22-year-old Cristina Luke Niju from Sabah in final semester at a polytechnic in Sarawak who was arrested with 1.4 kg of narcotics in Guangzhou, China last month.

“Young people especially girls must be more cautious. They can be easy prey to syndicates and their empty promises,” he said.

He also urged Malaysians travelling out of the country not to be taken in by persuasive people requesting help to carry their bags because of “excessive baggage weight”.

There are many more. Hope you will be more alert.

Human natural need to socialize, a key to social network proliferation

According to Abraham Maslow, a well known psychologist with his “Maslow hierarchy of needs”, physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, esteem needs and self actualization are five human basic needs. While, by the evolution of the world, social needs is another basic requirement of human. Human beings are social crea­tures. As such, the root of all suc­cess from social net­work­ing sites is based on a need to con­nect and expand con­nec­tions.

Social networking websites are getting popular on web among the computer users. This shows the socializing nature of the people in the society.Social networking has brought the world closer. It is a very good way of communicating with the people. You can find old classmates, co-workers, or old lost friends on social networking sites. You mail them, chat with them, and even play games with them. People who have a lot of hobbies can join more than one social network. There are even some social networking sites with the main goal of connecting business minded people.

There are many benefits and many people are registering with these websites to always keep in touch with the dear ones as in the busy schedules. There are many possibilities wherein you might not get enough time to spend with your dear ones. This issue can be completely overcome by using these websites and also it is possible with the presence of at least one internet enabled portable device along with you. You need not have to give out any distinction with the fact whether you are at office or at home while surfing through these websites. If you are in search of a friend you can confidently search on these websites as there are million of them online at a time.

Social networking websites not only allow peo­ple to expand their con­nec­tions around inter­ests, it give us a window to express our views too. . These sites have given the world a whole new way to communicate and share their views, ideas and information. Millions of web surfers log on to these websites everyday and it has almost become a part of their life. The increased in the number of blogs have shown that peo­ple love to share their opin­ion. In the same way, the pro­lif­er­a­tion of the open source move­ment shows that some peo­ple love to share their exper­tise. There is a deeply rooted need among human beings to share, whether it is infor­ma­tion or opin­ions. Social net­works appeal to the altru­is­tic side of peo­ple by allow­ing them to share their con­nec­tion and intro­duce friends to other friends.

They key to social net­works quickly mov­ing up in size is human social needs. Because peo­ple who get on those need to expand their net­work, they invite their friends. And those friends, in turn, invite their friends.

Factors that lead to missuse of the social network

1. The emerging of social network
The increase of popularity of social network constantly increase has lead to the missuse of the social network. Due to the usage of social have keep on increase,people tends to missuse the the popularity of social network. For example a suicide case and a rumours about suicide had occur in Malaysia
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This is are the cases that happen in social network


  

Chronology of Social Network

Social networking sites which allow users to connect with each other online have grown into one of themost popular features on the World Wide Web. Here is a brief history some of the most popular sites which have risen to world wide popularity.

1985 – The origins of social network sites began with the emergence of online communities such as The Well

1994 – Geocites ( now closed) aimed to bring people together in the format of chatrooms where people could share ideas and thoughts.

2003- Friendster is launched attracting over 3 million users within the first few months. The aim was to provide a safe environment for people to connect online

2003- With the launch of Friendster the popularity and appeal of social networking sites was being recognised. Myspace built upon the key features of Friendster but gave users the ability to add music and video to their pages. Myspace was bought in July 2005 by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

2004 – Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook from his college dorm as a networking site for students at Harvard University. Facebook remains one of the most popular social networking sites with over 400 million users worldwide.


2005 - Bebo launched as a networking and blogging site. Key features were a friends list and comment box. Bebo becomes part of AOL in 2008. Can be linked to other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

2005 – YouTube an Adobe Flash video sharing website, displaying a broad range of user-generated content including film and TV clips, music videos and original, amateur blogs or videos.


2006 – Twitter was launched as a new type of social networking site, focused on microblogging. It allows people to send ‘tweets’ and to update their status to notify people on what they are up to. Instead of having ‘friends’ users have people ‘following’ them or they follow people, allowing them users to keep up to date with what their friends are doing. Twitter became an ideal platform for celebrities to connect with their fans.


2010 - Building on the idea of Twitter, Google Buzz targets a more niche market of Gmail users, allowing them to automatically and conveniently follow existing friends. Like Twitter, intertextuality is integrated in the form of photos (Flickr), videos (YouTube) and links (Twitter).

the example of social networking

What is social networking?

Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and experiences about cooking, golfing, gardening, developing friendships or professional alliances, finding employment, business-to-business marketing.

When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used. These websites are known as social sites. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users. Depending on the website in question, many of these online community members share common interests in hobbies, religion, or politics. Once you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the profile pages of other members and possibly even contacting them.