Social Network

Social network is one of the most used materials in today's world. It is the online environment in which we can get and share information easily. To reach those information is also so easy because of the accessibility of internet. With the help of providing interaction and communication, people can be aware of each other. However, some people can abuse this beneficial materials, so we should be careful while using these materials in our daily life.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social Networking sites play a significant role in our lives at this era. We mostly use them even if we do not need. For example; we use Facebook, Twitter or any other sites like that.They are the good ways to express ourselves and get information or be more intellectual. With the help of them, we can follow news and what happens in the world. Those sites have a great many of branches; sucha as literature, history, poetry, science, policy, etc...
on the other hand, those sites have some disadvantages. They may make us addictive to them. This is really dangerous. So, we are to manage our using those sites carefully.

The Social Network

The film titled The Social Network shows us a lot of events about how a social internet site is found.

Social Networks and Target Language

Social Networks provide people to communicate each other across the world and thanks to this feature people can practice their target language.

social networks

I think such social networks are very beneficial in aspects of reaching a lot of kinds of different information at the same time, however like all the sites they should be used while considering the time, sometimes they can be very attractive and take too much time.

Social Networks

The advance in technology have enabled many new improvements in the internet. The most noticeable example could be seen on social networks. Today, a great number of people use these networks such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. One of the reasons why people choose these networks is that they provide them with a platform that they can meet new people and share their ideas.

Social Networking

Social networking is improving day by day. Especially Facebook get thounsands of new members everyday. People socialize by using this kind of sites. They find their old friends, relatives and new friends. Most of the people prefer using these kind of sites instead of meeting and spending time together.

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes", which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of network theory consisting of nodes and ties (also called edges, links, or connections). Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. The resulting graph-based structures are often very complex. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.

In its simplest form, a social network is a map of specified ties, such as friendship, between the nodes being studied. The nodes to which an individual is thus connected are the social contacts of that individual. The network can also be used to measure social capital – the value that an individual gets from the social network. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines.

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Social Media Revolution 2010

Social Networking Sites

Social Networks

Do the names MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, etc. ring a bell? They probably do because they are some of the most popular sites on the internet today. These sites are all called 'social networking' sites because they help people meet and discuss things online. Each of these social networking sites has its own strengths: MySpace is especially popular among teenagers, Facebook is popular with college age people, Orkut is especially loved in Brazil, and CyWorld is the site to visit in South Korea. The common thread between all of these social networks is that they provide a place for people to interact, rather than a place to go to read or listen to 'content'.

Web 2.0

Social networks are considered to be web 2.0. What does this mean? To understand this, it's important to understand what the original web did (often called web 1.0). Back in the nineties, the internet - or web - was a place to go to read articles, listen to music, get information, etc. Most people didn't contribute to the sites. They just 'browsed' the sites and took advantage of the information or resources provided. Of course, some people did create their own sites. However, creating a site was difficult. You needed to know basic HTML coding (the original language the internet uses to 'code' pages). It certainly wasn't something most people wanted to do as it could take hours to get a basic page just right. Things began to get easier when blogs (from web log) were introduced. With blogs, many more people began writing 'posts', as well as commenting on other people's blogs.

MySpace Surprises Everybody

In 2003 a site named MySpace took the internet by storm. It was trying to mimic the most popular features of Friendster, the first social networking site. It quickly became popular among young users and the rest was history. Soon everyone was trying to develop a social networking site. The sites didn't provide 'content' to people, they helped people create, communicate and share what they loved including music, images and videos. They key to the success of these sites is that they provide a platform on which users create the content. This is very different from the beginning of the internet which focused on providing 'content' for people to enjoy.

Key to Success

Relying on users to create content is the key to the success of web 2.0 companies. Besides the social networking sites discussed here, other huge success stories include: Wikipedia, Digg.com and the latest success - Twitter. All of these companies rely on the desire of users to communicate with each other, thereby creating the 'content' that others want to consume.

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