Effects+on+Knowledge

=Effects on Knowledge sharing=

Although Facebook is primarily used for communicating with friends and family in a social way, it can be argued facebook is a major advertisement medium. This is because since the launch aspects of the of the features available have been adapted for other reasons of communicating and not just a use of communicating with friends, family and collegues through Facebook groups. Many companies have now created their own page on facebook. These Pages are accessible by every user and can be used to make the facebook community know about what products and services are on offer. Through this each company or organisation has attracted more people to its businesses. Even the major news channels such as BBC and ITV are on facebook along side the major retail companies including Tesco. Some hobby orientated companies also use Facebook for advertisement, they allow their members to upload images showing how they enjoy the hobby to the page. This is popular with american companies, including Woodland Scenics.[|(Facebook Inc, 2011)]

Within the group section of facebook as with pages, it is possible for the creator to upload documents, share photos and enable ' the wall' this feature allow comments to be made with responses to follow them. By using the wall facility each 'member or follower ' of the group will see what is said. With large companies this is often used as a question based resource or an advertisement measure. Facebook has other features including 'private message' which allows the individual user to privately communicate with another without others reading it. Another major feature is 'share' where it enables users to share what they see with another facebook user, and such sharing the read knowledge with another individual, [|(Facebook Inc, 2011)]. It can also be said that alot of the knowledge shared may be interpreted differently due to the social aspect of Facebook, alot of people communicate using their own slang and this may not be fully understood by others.

Another Wiki on wikispaces is based around Facebook and negative media attention this although relevent to both Knowledge Sharing and Facebook in the Media should be discussed in the Effects on Knowledge page. This is because the Wiki although about Media attention is a knowledge sharing tool aimed at bringing out the positive aspects of using [|Facebook] as a knowledge sharing tool in the Education sector. This wiki is available atFacebook4Education.

From public knowledge it is clear that every issue will have both positive and negative aspects to it, through sharing knowledge both aspects can be investigated. Issues faced concentrates on the issues[| Facebook]has faced during its time line since creation and possibilities it may face in the future. There are both positive and negative effects of using[| Facebook] as a knowledge sharing medium, the table shows some of these.

there are over 700 million users and some may use facebook for false reasons. || connection is needed and some people who live in rural areas cannot get it. || up to date websites on the internet. ||= Although Facebook can be considered very up to date due to the ever changing needs and demands of its consumers it is possible that there may be a time where it isn't as up to date as local papers or word of mouth, this could include power outages or a time where the technology becomes too modern and hard to use due to its complicated mannerisms. || connection point, now families and friends use it to communicate over the world. ||= Although a good source for communicating, there are other also free pieces of technology including [|Skype] and [|Hotmail] that offer communication methods, and another social media site [|Twitter] allows a news feed to be made keeping contacts upto date with a short message at regular intervals. || media type="custom" key="11473880"
 * ~ Positive Effects of Using Facebook for Knowledge Sharing ||~ Negative Effects of Using Facebook for Knowledge Sharing ||
 * = A wide audience can be involved immediately ||= Some people may fear privacy as within the vast number of individuals
 * = A wide audience can be involved immediately ||= Some people may fear privacy as within the vast number of individuals
 * = Facebook is free to use and available to many people ||= In order to use most of facebook's additional features a high speed internet
 * = Facebook is constantly updated making it one of the most
 * = Although it used to be aimed at the teenager generation as a social