Well said. Social Networking is also a very powerful tool in education as people tend to learn better in small groups.
Social Networking has a lot of social learning involved and the application possibility is vast. Many educators use the approach of "constructivism" in social learning to emphasize the idea that the teacher or "venerable authority" may not always have the best up-to-date answer to all potential questions in any given learning environment.
While most of us are used to the "objectivist" approach where the instructor, education institution or "guru" provide all the answers, social networking in education pushes people to learn critical thinking skills.
While some may not use critical thinking skills on MySpace, they may be used on Facebook, WordPress, the Huffington Post or other social media outlets. These critical thinking skills are used in the various small and large communities while participants written communication skills improve.
Social Networking also seems to be having an impact on how to communicate more effectively so that readers can identify when a comment is attacking a person instead of the issue/subject intelligently. This may lend itself to a future of readers and writers who can decipher and decrypt all of the political spin present in media in general.
So movie plot aside, Social Networking is here to stay as it is slowly integrating into education and the media in an indispensable manner. Diversity in ideas is one of Social Networking biggest contributions.
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