UNDERSTANDING

SOCIAL NETWORKING
AND
STUDENT TEACHER
RELATIONSHIP
 INTRODUCTION
Since the introduction of social network sites years ago, to
communication with friends and family has been easy once we have
access to internet.

The internet has given us the ability to connect with people from
around the globe with a few clicks of a button.

Social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Face book,

YouTube, Skype & etc, have attracted millions of users, many of
whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. People
consume a lot of time on this sites uploading or downloading,
getting information their career or academic work.
 People are always online every second, chatting with friends,
watching online movies, doing research. Social site has
become an habit for many people.

Some people have become very smart because of the

information they get from these sites, because it is easy to get
almost any material for school assignments.
MEANING OF SOCIAL

The term social refers to a characteristic of living organisms as

applied to populations of humans and other animals.
MEANING OF NETWORKING

In information technology, networking is the

construction, design, and use of a network, including
the physical (cabling, bridge, switch, and so forth), the
selection and use of telecommunication protocol and
computer software for using and managing the
network, and the establishment of operation policies
and procedures related to the network.
 Networking Promotes exchange of information or
services among individuals, groups, or institutions;
specifically the cultivation of productive relationships for
employment or business.
Networking needs the establishment or use of a computer
network.
DEFINITION OF 'SOCIAL NETWORKING'

Social networking refers to use of internet-based social media

programs to make connections with friends, family, classmates,
customers and clients. Social networking can be done for social
purposes, business purposes or both..

The programs show the associations between individuals and

facilitate the acquisition of new contacts. Examples of social
networking have included Face book, LinkedIn, Classmates.com
and Yelp.
THE EARLY YEARS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SYSTEM

Social networking began in 1978 with the Bulletin Board

System (or BBS.) The BBS was hosted on personal
computers, requiring that users dial in through the modem of
the host computer, exchanging information over phone lines
with other users. Later on the very first copies of web
browsers were distributed using the bulletin board Usenet.
Usenet was created by Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott, and it
allowed users to post news articles or posts, which were
referred to as news.
 The difference between Usenet and other BBS and forums
was that it didnt have a dedicated administrator or central
server.
 The first meaningful social network site is SixDegrees.com: it was
launched in 1997.

Each of these features existed in some form before Six Degrees, of

course. Profiles existed on most major dating sites and many
community sites.
 While people were already flocking to the Internet, most did not have
extended networks of friends who were online.
 The next wave of SNSs began when Ryze.com was launched in 2001
to help people leverage their business networks. Ryze's founder
reported that he first introduced the site to his friends primarily
members of the San Francisco business and technology community,
including the entrepreneurs and investors behind many future SNSs
(A. Scott, June 14, 2007). In particular, the people behind Ryze,
Tribe.net, LinkedIn, and Friendster were tightly entwined personally
and professionals .
WHAT IS A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE?

Social as the word sounds deals with the way we communicate in

our society, in which we meet and spend time with other people.

Network is the connection of parts together to allow movement or

communication with other parts. Social networking is the
connection of friends or family together which allow us to
communicate easily.

With social networking sites we can have a long chain of friends ;

we can chat or share information with them .
 At the most basic level social networking sites allow users
to set up online profiles or personal homepages, and
develop an online social network.
 IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social networking has become one of the most important parts of

our daily life as it enables us to communicate with a lot of people.

Since the creation of social networking sites such as MySpace,

LinkedIn, and Facebook, individuals are given opportunities to meet
new people and friends in their own and also in the other diverse
communities across the world. By doing so, individuals can become
friends or fans of the profile, and will be updated on current events,
specials, and other essential information that the masses would like
to share.
 In earlier days people cannot think about social networking because,
in those days science was not so advanced, but due to advancement
of technology over the period of time people have become very
much accustomed to this particular method of socializing .
 Social networking is important for many different reasons. Social
media lets people stay in touch with each other more easily, as well
as reconnect with people they may have once known but have lost
contact with.
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE STUDENT
A TEACHER RELATIONSHIP

Imagine that you are a teacher. Now, imagine, logging into your
Face book account; once on your homepage you notice a red icon
in the upper left hand corner indicating a friend request. You
eagerly click on the icon to see who it could be.
To your surprise, it is one of your students! What should you do?
Should you accept your students request or delete it? This is a
common scenario faced by teachers across the nation due to the
recent introduction of social networks.
These social networks have presented new ways for students and
teachers to interact, and in turn, have impacted the student teacher
relationship.
 Social networks are virtual forums that allow individuals to reconnect
and socialize with old friends and family, and become acquainted with
new people.
A central feature of these social networks is that they allow the users to
provide information about themselves, such as marital status, hobbies,
and favourite quotes, post pictures, share their own thoughts and daily
activities, and write messages on their friends profile pages.
All this personal information about the user is available to the users
friends. That means if a teacher and student become friends on a social
networkwhich is a common occurrencethe student gets access to his
or her teachers private information.
Can all this selfdisclosure about the teacher be detrimental to the
studentteacher relationship? Researchers do not think so. In fact, such
disclosure could be quite beneficial to the studentteacher relationship.
SOCIAL NETWORK AND THE USERS

The issue of whether social networking helps or hurts a students

academic performance often depends on the larger issues identified
with the overall use of SNS (e.g., its psychological effects, individual
self-discipline and self-regulation concerns, human adaptability
concerns).
The benefit of using SNS includes: It create room for creativity among
individuals, encouraging greater social interaction via electronic
mediums; it provides greater access to information and information
sources; it gives individuals a sense of belonging among users of the
same SNS, it reduces barriers to group interaction and communications
such as distance and social/economic status; and it increases the
technological competency levels of frequent users of social media.
 Internet usage has grown rapidly over the last few years. Users are
able to build a network of connections that they can display as a
list of friends.
 CONCLUSION

Students are exposed to the internet and they are not shy of using it
for research and career activities, to upgrade their academic
knowledge. And to achieve their academic goals.
Thank you,,,