Issues and Challenges in Using Social Media

Abstract- Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This section brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe the issues and challenges in using them. More than three-fourths of IT organizations have put a plan to maintain or increase their investments in technology trends that encourage user collaboration, such as peer-to-peer networking, social networking and web services. Our paper provides an overview of common knowledge sharing tools available in the internet and corporate world to illustrate the guidelines and their effectiveness. We then present few perspectives on the history of such sites, discussing key problems along with their effective guidelines. We suggested multiple sets of guidelines surrounding the quality policies, code of conduct & objectives of knowledge sharing. These suggestions will further help to improve the effectiveness of the knowledge sharing community. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations. I