There are times in life that you wish you knew more people to get a particular job done faster, or perhaps know someone who can get you something you need.
But in times like these, unless you broadcast to the world what you're looking for, you can't really find the right people that you need, and asking everyone you know is tedious and slow.
Even if you use instant messaging or SMS, that's still going to take quite some time before you can get any worthwhile results.
But with the advent of social networking sites, you can establish connections easier than ever before.
What Social Networking Sites Really Do The most basic function that social networking sites do for their members is that they can quickly establish a connection between you and the person you want to make contact with.
When you send a message, one look from the recipient of your message at your profile, then they can immediately see how you're connected.
It will show that you're the friend of a friend of a friend, and that's most likely how you came across that person's profile as well.
Once you establish a connection, which is probably the hardest thing to do when meeting new persons or even just contacting them online, they can be a little more trusting regarding you, and perhaps not treat you as a total stranger because of the fact that you have a common friend, although you might not have been introduced yet.
The best thing about it is that you can have an easier time approaching a person than if you were to be a total stranger.
The Extent Of Your Connections If you view how you're connected to the world in general by friends of friends of friends, you can see that if you lay it out on a chart, it would form a web with you at the center, and spiraling infinitely outwards.
If you connect everyone on your friends list with everyone else's, you could establish a connection to whoever it is in the world.
That literally connects you to everyone on the planet, no matter how far a route will go to establish a connection between two persons.
If we see the practical application of social networking, which is in the end going to benefit you the most, you can get jobs that are referred to you by friends of friends as an example.
You can have friends refer you as a potential candidate for the job, and you can also refer your friends when someone else is in need.
With social networking sites, the possibilities are endless when you know to what extent you social network is capable of bringing you in terms of the right connections.
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