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#dentalnurse: pleasures, perils and pitfalls of social networking

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Social media is changing how dental nurses communicate with colleagues and patients, and how practices promote themselves. While it opens up opportunities to reach more patients and boost professional development, nurses need to know how to avoid potential pitfalls

We live in a world of instant communications, and it’s a world that has developed in a few years. From the first tweet in 2006, Twitter now has 500 million users generating over 340 million tweets daily. It took three years, two months and one day to get from the first tweet to the billionth. In addition, one in 7.7 people in the world has a Facebook account, so it is impossible to ignore.

It is difficult to grasp what these statistics actually mean. We do know that the growth of social networking platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn has been nothing short of phenomenal. Millions of people around the world with access to the internet are members of one or more of these social networks.

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