Social Networking

SOCIAL NETWORKING

MAURICIO ESTEBAN REYES GUARANDA

NEW PRACTICE EDUCATION

TUTOR: LUIS TELLO

SOCIAL NETWORKING

MAURICIO ESTEBAN REYES GUARANDA

NEW PRACTICE EDUCATION

TUTOR: LUIS TELLO

DEDICATORY

INDEX
SOCIAL NETWORKING
1. INTRODUCTION
2. BEGGININGS
3. PROS
3.1 SOCIAL IMPACT
3.2 SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SCIENCE
3.3 SOCIAL NETWORKS AND EDUCATION
3.4 SOCIAL NETWORKSAND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
3.5 SOCIAL NETWORKS AND EMPLOYMENT
3.6 SOCIAL NETWORK HOSTING SERVICE
3.7 BUSISNESS MODEL
3.8 SOCIAL INTERACTION
4. ISSUES
4.1 PRIVACY
4.2 ACCESS TO INFORMATION
4.3 POTENTIAL FOR MISSUSE
4.4 RISK FOR CHILD SAFETY
4.5 TROLLING
4.6 ONLINE BULLYING
4.7 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
4.8 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
5. SOCIAL IMPACT INECUADOR AND WORLDWIDE
5.1 GENERAL STATISTICS
5.1 LOCAL SURVEY
6. CONCLUSSIONS

1. INTRODUCTION

What’s a social networking service?
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of arepresentation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means anindividual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.
The main types of social networking services are those that contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and arecommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook, Google+ and Twitter widely used worldwide, The Sphere (luxury network), Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, VKontakte, Hi5, Hyves (mostly in The Netherlands), Draugiem.lv (mostly in Latvia), Ask-a-peer (career oriented), StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), iWiW (mostly in Hungary), Tuenti (mostly in Spain),Nasza-Klasa (mostly in Poland), Decayenne, Tagged, XING, Badoo and Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Mixi, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, renren and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands and Facebook are very popular in India.
There have been attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAFstandard and the Open Source Initiative). A 2011 survey found that 47% of American adults use a social network.

2. BEGGININGS
The potential for computer networking to facilitate newly improved forms of computer-mediated social interaction was suggested early on. Efforts to support social networks via computer-mediated communication were made in many early online services, including Usenet,ARPANET, LISTSERV, and bulletin board services (BBS). Many prototypical features of social networking sites were also present in online services such as America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, and The WELL. Early social networking on the World Wide Web began in the form of generalized online communities such as Theglobe.com (1995), Geocities (1994) and Tripod.com (1995). Many of these early communitiesfocused on bringing people together to interact with each other through chat rooms, and encouraged users to share personal information and ideas via personal webpages by providing easy-to-use publishing tools and free or inexpensive webspace. Some communities - such as Classmates.com - took a different approach by simply having people link to each other via email addresses. In the late 1990s,...