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ACESOCIAL NETWORKS AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT

SUBMITTED BY:
CRISTIAN VILLEGAS
WIDMAR ANDRES LOPEZ

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TEACHER DE INGLES (NO SE EL NOMBRE)
INGLES NIVEL II

CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA CENTRO SUPERIOR
SANTIAGO DE CALI, LUNES 16 DE MAYO DE 2011
II SEMESTRE INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT

PRESENTADO POR: SUBMITTED BY:
CRISTIAN VILLEGASCHRISTIAN VILLEGAS
WIDMAR ANDRES LOPEZ WIDMan ANDRES LOPEZ

CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA CENTRO SUPERIOR

SANTIAGO DE CALI, LUNES 16 DE MAYO DE 2011
II SEMESTRE INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS SEMESTER II ENGINEERING SERVICES
INTRODUCTION
Perhaps one of the applications with more impact and popularity of the Internet called Web 2.0, social networks are. Creating Web 2.0 applications in the socialnetwork environment has generated a broad cultural phenomenon and an explosive number of users. For example, the Internet as a communication medium in four years generated more than 50 million users. Social networks like Facebook passed 200 to 250 million registered users in just three months. Social networking has been a phenomenon in recent years, not only used by people, but also being used bylarge corporations, organizations and companies to promote their products and services, and have a close encounter with its customers or supporters.

BACKGROUND
Since its inception, the Web was conceived as a social tool. Tim Berners-Lee, created in the early 90's the World Wide Web, their motivation was to improve communication with their fellow researchers. In the beginning, the first phaseof the Web was mainly characterized by personal and business web pages with static content, using the programming language known as HTML (HyperText Markup language, for its acronym in English). At this stage the owners of Web sites had total control of content and users were merely observers. Subsequently the development of new languages ​​such as PHP, Javascript, Java, XML, Ajax, among others,allowed the creation of new platforms that allow users to take not only the role of observer, but also a creator of content. Thus born the so-called social networks, blogs (blogs), wikis (eg wikipedia), mashups (hybrid), among other applications that are considered part of the Web 2.0 platform, a term coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2004.
In Web 2.0, Internet user has an active, not only accessinginformation, but also bringing in content. Using the capabilities of Web 2.0, Internet user can perform functions that were previously restricted to specialists. Such is the case of audio editing, video and image publishing books and articles, information processing, resource management, among many others. All these features and more are part of social networks.

WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING ON THEINTERNET?
The term network, from the Latin rete, and is used to define a structure that has a specific pattern. There are different types of networks: computer, electrical, social. Social networks may be defined as structures where many people hold different types of friendly relations, labor and love. Today days the term "network" has been redefined to define a phenomenon absent in recent yearsand was named to different sites or websites that offer people register and contact with many individuals who share tastes, professions, similar preferences network sites. In this article we refer to social networking sites for short SRS, which comes from the English social network sites.
The first Social Network
One of the first popular social networks, Friendster.com, appeared in 2002, and wascreated to help you find friends of friends, and from its beginning until the official release of the site in May 2003, had grown from mouth in the mouth to the amount of 300 thousand users. Over time, the system not being prepared for a lot of records growing day by day, have experienced technical problems that led to the fall the site often, because the growth was constant. A rumor began to...