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Social networking has revolutionized the way the world learns, thinks, socialized, and even make a living. The world found out how easy it was to meet new people and communicate with loved ones while within the comfort of their own houses. As social networks developed, more and more benefits came about. For instance Ecommerce has made its way to social networking. In 2008 through today's most popular social networking website Facebook.com, the company Wholesale-dress.net combined its marketing and sales with the popular social networking site in order to advertise and gain customers (Wholesales Inc 2011.). Now almost any company, be it small or large, has a profile on Facebook and has the ability to reach more customers due to the popularity of the social network as well as advertise for free via the company's profile page. The other major benefit of social networking is the ability for people around the world to communicate with each other in real time for free. This outreaches the previous methods of communication and brought new trends such as mobile talk and mobile video onto the social networking framework. More and more parts of everyone's lives are filled with some sort of interaction on a social networking site. A student may contact a professor or other classmates via Facebook, or a customer may research a company to view company information and products. The possibilities of whom or what can communicate via social networking sites is endless. Information can be spread to different parts of the world allowing for real people's voices to be heard in an instant. This kind of benefit has redefined how our society communicates and uses the internet.