The more social networking, the more neccesity to doubt

After reading "Six Myths about Informal Networks - and How to Overcome Them" and Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'

I read some materials about social networking in business and facebook. According to the articles, informal networks are very important, not only in the field of business, but also on the Internet networking.

We are living in the world with numerous networks. They include not only about the Internet sites like Facebook or networks in the real world like the networking in the business, but also the Internet sites we surfed to fine some information, the people we meet on campus, and the world we live. There is lots of information from anonymous people, just we heard or seen in the Internet or something, and which are from somewhere we even cannot remember.

The problem is that no one can be sure to the information on conversations, on the Internet, in the world. I think this is because there are too many informal networks, and we receive information from them without filtering. In a Korean movie, “Castaway On The Moon,” there is a woman who has many blogs which pretend to belong to pretty girls, in different age, and different face. The girl is not satisfied with herself, so she makes many blogs and fine gorgeous pictures from other blogs to copy and paste to her virtual blogs. All of the stuff in her blogs is not real, from the owner to the pictures. I thought this movie while I was reading the material about facebook, because it is possible to be in the real world. A posting about “I am reading a book” doesn’t mean that s/he is really reading a book. We cannot believe from stuffs in blogs to even the person has it.

It was some drastic example, but it can be occur in the real world. In a company, too many informal networks can bring about grapevine, which means groundless rumor between employees, so that it can affect to them negative effect. This is due to the fact that information from someone can be tortured during it is delivered, or someone can spread intended rumor to other people in the company. By the characteristic of social networking, the final receiver of the information cannot know the first person who gave the information, and sometime, no one can do it. This can be fatal to performance of employees, by affecting on social relationships in the company.