MERITS OF SOCIAL  NETWORKING

1. Social Networking involves the use of the internet to connect users with their friends, family and acquaintances. Social networking websites are not necessarily about meeting new people online, although this does happen. Instead, they are primarily about connecting with friends, family and acquaintances you already have in real life. The most well known social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter. These sites allow you to share photos, videos and information,  chat, download music and even play games like Scrabble and Chess online.

Disadvantages: 
1. Social networking takes time away from other activities and can take over from real time interaction. 
2. Social networking formats set up expectations of importance for certain types of communication at the expense of other types. Pictures and phrases on a wall can take the place of phone calls and face to face time with family and friends. 
3. Social networking magnifies the gap between people who have access to computer technology and those that don't, exacerbating other social inequities. 
4. Social networking can compromise privacy in a big way. 
5. Social networking can force changes in public policy which can either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on whose ox is gored. Employers can now make access to private social networking history a condition of hiring. Lawmakers may want to change that to prevent discrimination.