Social networking has come a long way since the introduction of several social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook in the early 2000s. Nowadays, it is almost certain that any application involving online interactions may be linked to a social networking site. Social media has reached a new level; Almost all web applications must or will recommend that their users connect their application profiles to their social media profiles. Because social networking sites and social media contain their users' personal information, social media users are constantly connected within their close-knit communities found across the web. Social media participants are updated and connected to information shared across the web. But while social media can strengthen bonds between people, online interactions can also harm relationships. The gradual increase in time spent on online networks can affect people psychologically and; as a result, the transition to a new era of social interactions is slowly transforming the way people interact with each other. Adding to the growing problems with social media user interactions is also the concern over the privacy of the common social media user. By updating and maintaining a personal profile online, social network users post their personal information to the Internet, which is, according to WordNet, a lexical database designed by Princeton University, "...a network computing consisting of a global network of computer networks. …” (WordNet). In addition to being connected to a community of friends and family, social media users are connected to other Internet users around the world, allowing likely interactions with strangers. Social network...... middle of paper ......d Technology, 62. April 26, 2011. 1435-1445. Internet. February 20, 2014. Boyd, Danah. "Why Youth Heart Social Networking Sites: The Role of Networked Audiences in the Social Lives of Adolescents". Berkman Center for Internet and Society. December 2007. Internet. February 25, 2014Drula, Georgeta. "Knowledge Sharing on Social Networking Sites". Lex ET Scientia, December 16, 2009. 463-473. Internet. February 20, 2014. Lardner, Richard. "Your new Facebook 'friend' may be the FBI." AP.org. Associated Press, March 16, 2010. Web. February 20, 2014. Lee, Daniel B., Jessica Goede and Rebecca Shryock. "Clicking for Friendship: Social Networking Sites and the Medium of Personality". SMID, 26. 2010. Web. February 20, 2014. Robards, Brady. “Chances in my bedroom: negotiating privacy and unsolicited contact on social networking sites.” Ed. Erika Pearson. PRism Online PR Journal, 7. 2010. 1-12. Internet. February 20 2014.