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By Alexx on Feb 25, 2011 |Social Media
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Recently social networks become increasingly widely spread. And with their developmet they began to determine all sides of people’s living. The results of many researches state that one-hald of the net is already covered by social networks. The term social networks appeared much earlier than the internet and online networks. In 1954 it was introduced by an American sociologist James Barns. Since that time social networks have become a popular tendency that became central in up-to-date design. Nowadays social network have developed a lot and there appeared a big number of networks created for different purposes, the main of which are to find friends, to get acquainted, to get a job or an employee or to grow your business. The competition among social networks is very big nowadays and only high quality and original sites can attract people nowadays. This explains a great quantity of niche oriented social networks that appeared lately. Some of them are only for web designers, others allow to meet black people online, some are for intersts. Social networks have a some of advantages as well as disadvantages. In this article we will say abut the most important: 1. Information in your profile. On one hand, it is very convenient if you forgot the address of your friend or his mobile number, you can quickly visit his page in social network. But on the other hand there is a danger to give such data as your mobile phone in public profile. Making this info visible just to the friends can clear this issue, but in such case you should be certain in all your friends. Also, a lot of social networks never delete your information completely, so choose carefully what data to give. 2. Escape from reality. Social networks help to make a process of communication easier and lots more convenient. But if this becomes a habit and somebody stops to spend time with people in reality it can create a problem. But there is one more significant advantage: in social networks people can speak with people from different countries of the world and distances and borders can not prevent them from being friends. More than that, nowadays new technologies, such as video chat, give users a chance to speak and see their friends in real time. 3. Content. These day in social networks all peope are able to to enjoy various media content: video, music, etc. First of all it is very comfortable that you can view any video or listen to popular music without leaving a social network. But at the same time it is usually difficult to find anything definite in networks because of a huge quantity of the content. 4. People. The bigger is the social network, the higher is the chance that you will find somebody you want. On the other hand, narrower oriented social networks are more convenient, if you know what you need. Nowin some networks you can talk only with your colleagues, in other with specialists, some give possibilities for black dating, others are for moms, etc. 5. But a quantity of spam in social networks is also really huge. Today this issue is being solved changing a common way of communication by messages into live chat, were only real people can talk. But on the whole social networks are a big innovation that can be combined with the creation of the internet. They made our life much easier and gave a new possibility to communicate with a big quantity of people from various countries without even leaving home.
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