Educational Technology/Social Networking

Social networking services are platforms to build relationships among people who, share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

Pros

 * Provides a social presence and opportunity for engagement based on the Community of Inquiry learning model.

Cons

 * According to Pew Research, only Facebook is used by a majority of adult learners. Other social networking services have less than 25% penetration among this audience.
 * Many adult learners are uncomfortable mixing their work, personal, and educational social networks.

Social Networking

 * Blogger
 * Facebook
 * Google+
 * LinkedIn
 * Instagram
 * Pinterest
 * Tumblr
 * Twitter

Social Bookmarking

 * Delicious
 * Diigo