Social media is the "form of communicating, collaborating, and connecting with anyone, anywhere, anytime." The constant flow of information and the advance development in technology creates a more complex business environment (Jue, et.al 5). This new way of using social media has applied to alternative workforces, "work can now be performed by a larger community that will contribute via the internet, concept of mass collaboration. Traditional ideas of the typical career life cycle are becoming obsolete."(Jue 6). These issues opens up the workforce not only do employees have to worry about people within their geographic area they have to worry about people all over the world being able to perform duties and tasks for a company. People change their careers because long-term placement or vision of the company no longer exists as things constantly changes. These 3 issues are what makes the intergration of social media hard for employees to come to grasp with, even though it opens lots of oppotunities for companies to become better and more successful it still has advantages and disadvantages. This article is a link to an article about the issues a business can have with social media:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Disadvantages-of-Social-Media&id=3026858
This was an interesting article. Social networking forces business to stay accountable at all times. Jobs can be created based on a business's need to keep up with social networking. Personally, I've seen jobs advertised for just social networking. It is amazing how it has changed the job market.
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