Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace allow you to search and connect with anyone, from a coworker in a very nearby cube to the girl who played Emily in your high school production of “Our City” thirty years ago. Browsing these sites will make you feel connected to a larger community, however such direct and causal affiliation in an electronic environment can also have its drawbacks. Keeping up with Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media sites can build it, build it harder for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we tend to foster in the world, and therefore the various causal relationships modeled through social media. By focusing most of our time and motivation on these less meaningful relationships, our more meaningful connections, he fears, may weaken. The immediacy offered by social media is also available to predators as friends. Children are particularly vulnerable to the practice of cyberbullying in which perpetrators, anonymously or perhaps posing as people the victims trust, terrorize people before their peers. The devastation of these online attacks will leave deep mental scars. In many well-publicized cases, victims were even driven to suicide. The anonymity offered online will bring out dark impulses that would rather be repressed. Cyberbullying has spread widely among young people, with the 42nd reported to have been victims of it, according to a 2010 CBS account. Social networking sites encourage people to be more public about their personal lives. because the most intimate details of our lives can be published so easily, users risk bypassing the filters they usually use once by talking about their needs not...... half of the paper...... and of the public sector in general to stop looking at social networks in a negative light and use them to their advantage. PROFESSIONAL. Accessed 11 September 2010 from http://www.itpro.co.uk/619585/public-sector-still-blocking-social-networking-sitesJohnny Levis.2010. Social networks in the 2000s decade. Accessed September 11, 2010 from http://ezinearticles.com/?Social-Networking-Throughout-the-2000s-Decade&id=4304302 Lisa Kimball and Howard Rheingold.2010.How social networks Online networks benefit organizations. Accessed September 11, 2010. from http://www.rheingold.com/Associates/online network.html.Martin, Chuck. Social Networking Usage and Grades Among College Students: A Study to See the Correlation Between Social Media Usage and Grades” Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire. Accessed August 3, 2010 from http://docs.google.com/viewer?