Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society?, Asks New Website From ProCon.org
ProCon.org, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new website http://www.socialnetworking.procon.org to explore the core question “Are social networking sites good for our society?”
Social networking and blogging sites accounted for 17% (about one in every six minutes) of all time spent on the Internet in Aug. 2009, nearly three times as much as in 2008. The popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Classmates.com more than quadrupled from 2005 to 2009. As of Sep. 15, 2009, Facebook had 90 million users in the US and 300 million users worldwide.
October 22nd, 2009 | 312 views