UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLGICA EQUINOCCIAL

4th English Level

Technology: Social Networks

March 31st 2014

Josselyn Trujillo Edwin Tern Daniela Valencia

Social networking service

A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his social links, and a variety of additional services. Social networking is web-based services that allow individuals to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to share connection, and view and cross the connections within the system. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Social network sites are varied and they incorporate new information and communication tools such as, mobile connectivity, photo/video/sharing and blogging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, and interests with people in their network. 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 a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Americanbased services such as: Facebook Google YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Pinterest Tumblr Twitter

Facebook
Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his

college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high-school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, of which approximately 9% are fake. Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data per year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours. In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added $1 million of his own money. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "bestof" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Facebook eventually filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012; it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012. Based on its 2012 income of US$5 billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time on the list published in May 2013, being placed at position 462. In 2012, Facebook was valued at $104 billion, and by January 2014 its market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion. At the end of January 2014, 1.23 billion users were active on the website every month, while on December 31, 2013, 945 million of this total were identified by the company as mobile users. The company celebrates its tenth anniversary in the week beginning February 3, 2014. On January 2014, during the week previous to the company's tenth anniversary, chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, clarified: "He [Mark] always said Facebook was started not just to be a company, but to fulfill a vision of connecting the world".

Twitter:
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140character text messages, called "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. Today Twitter is one of the communication systems most used, not only like a way to share information, also like a communication tool between professionals. This social network has been converted in a great business. Many companies has known how use it, because it's an excellent way to promote and diffuse. Nowadays Twitter has made several improvements to its microblogging service merging with other companies. The amount of users increased notably with its raid in the mobile world. Twitter worth thousand dollars and it has been converted in the second most important social network in the world.

Suggestions:
To get the best of the social networks we should have clear that its most important the real life and share time with our family and friends that spend time in the computer Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network. Choose your social network carefully. Evaluate the site that you plan to use and make sure you understand the privacy policy. Assume that everything you put on a social networking site is permanent. Even if you can delete your account, anyone on the Internet can easily print photos or text or save images and videos to a computer Know what youve posted about yourself. Dont trust easily anybody, just verify the information. also we have to think before publish, remind that all that we type in the web will be public and will be to the scope to everyone.

Advantages
Worldwide Connectivity This networks are dedicated to allowing people to connect and to interact via the Internet. Through such sites, people make new friends or business connections by connecting and interacting with friends of friends. Finding romance Seeking a new job Locating assistance Getting and giving product and service

Commonality of Interest You can pick and choose those people whose likes and dislikes are similar to yours and build your network around these interest Real-Time Information Sharing Many social networking sites incorporate an instant messaging feature, which means you can exchange information in real-time via a chat. In addition, the Internet is the ultimate online textbook. News Social networking has revolutionized the speed of the news cycle. Many news organizations now partner with social networking sites like in order to both collect and share information.

Disadvantages Face to Face Connections are endangered They reduce or eliminate face-to-face socialization. Because of the autonomy afforded by the virtual world, individuals are free to create a fantasy character and can pretend to be someone else. Cyberbullying and Crimes against Children Use of social networks can expose individuals to harassment or inappropriate contact from others. The children could be exposed to pornography or other inappropriate content. Risks of Fraud or Identity Theft

Most thieves need just a few vital pieces of personal information to make your life a nightmare and if they successfully steal your identity, it could cost you dearly. Corporate Invasion of Privacy Social networking invites major corporations to invade your privacy and sell your personal information.

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