Being online;
The Internet is visited by millions of people everyday and up until quite recently they visited websites, chat rooms and instant messaging to share and communicate with their friends.
Then came another sort of site - 'social networking'. For example Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Twitter
Facebook started off at an University campus where a couple of students wanted to let their friends know where the parties and event were. It was extremenly popular at the Uni and it soon spread across the country and then the world. The 'social network' was born.
A social network site allows you to post messages, upload pictures and stories on to your own personal page. You can include favourite videos clips along with your 'likes'.
Friends, family and colleagues can then visit your page to see what is going on.Popular examples of Social networks are:
- Blogger
- Bebo
- Tumblr
- Flickr
- My space and many more.
There are many Advantages and Disadvantages of social networks. These come with dangers and good uses.
Here are some of my Advantages and Disadvantages, along with a link below that will explain some other Advantages and Disadvantages of using the net.
Advantages:
- Easy to stay in touch with people who you wish to stay in contact with, either new or old friends
- Able to see what the news is and what people are up to
- can create new friendships
- Can share photo's and video of yourself and friends to other friends and family
- Create a personal profile of yourself of photo's memories and an online 'Diary' type blog
- Can advertise and show information to a number of people who you are connected with for free
Disadvantages:
- Dangerous to those who don't keep their profile private
- Once a photo or video is uploaded will be kept on the internet forever, not alot of privacy once uploaded
- can be misused as can anything else on the internet
- privacy is lost and people can abuse you or cyber bully others over the social networks
- hacking and people getting on to your account without your permission can also be a problem.
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