Media Analysis

Internet

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Internet, it is a global network connection from the computer by using the common language to communicate with each other. Once you connect to any node, it means that your computer has been connected to the Internet online. Current users of the Internet have been all over the world, there are more than hundreds of millions of people using the Internet, and the number of users is still rising in geometric progression.

Internet functionality
On the Internet has a wealth of information resources, we can easily find all kinds of information through the Internet. We can seek information from two sources: human and computer systems. People who can provide all kinds of information can be found on the Internet: educators, scientists, engineering and technical experts, doctors, nutritionists, students ......, as well as a variety of expertise and interest people. For all of these people, the Internet provides to others in the same case for discussion and exchange channels. In fact, almost all may think of the subject, can be found in the group for discussion and exchange. Or, when there is no discussion group, we can also create a group. Internet content all-inclusive: there are a variety of professional disciplinary technical information, and related information with the public daily work and life; serious topics, but also sports, entertainment, tourism, recreation and anecdotes a class of information; historical archival information, real-world information; informative and educational information, news, and news media; academic, educational, industrial and cultural information, but also economic, financial and business information, etc.. Information carrier is involved in almost all the media, such as documents, spreadsheets, graphics, images, sounds and their synthesis. Information is small capacity to a few lines of characters as large as a library. Distribution of information in the computer around the world, in every possible form of existence, such as files, databases, bulletin boards, directories, documents and hypertext documents. This information is continually updated and changes. It can be said that, here is an inexhaustible treasure-house. Another resource of the Internet is a computer system resources, including the processing power of the computer connected to the Internet network, storage space (hardware resources), as well as software tools and software environment (software resources). Generally, Internet users require the use of computer systems, such as scientists, engineers, designers, teachers, students or an ordinary user can log in via remote to reach a target computer, this computer allows you to use and the establishment of your login account. You may like to use own computer to use them.

Internet characteristics
1. The system is not associated with specific private network. The user can at any location worldwide at any time convenient access to any node in the network above. 2. The requirements of the user's computer and network operations are very low. 3. The high bandwidth of the Internet. 4. The Internet cost is low.

Internet applications
1. Sending and receiving e-mail, which is the earliest and most widely used network application. Because of its low cost and fast, as if to shorten the spatial distance between people, regardless of the body to the exchange of information with friends in a foreign country, or liaison work as easy as chat with the neighbor next door. The argument of the global village is a not unreasonable. 2. The wide range of applications of the network will create a digital life and work, called the SOHO (Small Office Home Office) mode. Families will no longer be just an isolated unit of human social life, but vibrant cells in the information society. 3. Internet browsing or surfing, this is the most basic of services provided by the network. You can access any site of the online virtual tour based on your interests, and be able to stay at home to make known to the world affairs. 4. Query information. Use of the network the world's largest database, you can use the search engine for the query information to find the information you need from the vast repository of information, including a number of everyday things can be done on the network. 5. E-commerce is consumer behavior for consumers through the network into the online shopping site. The shopping site on the network is built on a virtual digital space, leveraging the Web to the display of goods and the use of multimedia features to enhance the visibility of the goods, selective. Such as eBay. Although online shopping is not perfect, it does not replace the traditional way to shop,
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but only to supplement a traditional shopping. But it actually came to our side, an extra option to our lives. 6. Enrich people's leisure lifestyle. Leisure activities that non-professional labor activities, which includes: entertainment activities such as listening to music, watching movies, television, dance, participate in sports activities; development activities, including learning cultural knowledge, and participate in social activities, engage in artistic creation and scientific inventions activities. But the network has a direct bearing on the leisure life in general, including leisure education, leisure entertainment and leisure contacts. 7. With the network pagers are becoming more widely used in people's lives, everyone through the Internet to make online friends around the world, exchange ideas, and really can do it "the memory friend The world is". 8. Other applications. The online version of the real world of human activity found everywhere, such as online on-demand, online stock trading, online job search, and art exhibitions.

Social Networking

The social networking site refers to the network of relationships between individuals, site-based social network relational systems thinking is the social networking site (SNS website). The full name of the SNS can also be the Social Networking Services. Social networking services refer specifically designed to help people build a social network of Internet application services. The famous are facebook and twitter. Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004. From September 2006 to September 2007, the site's ranking in the nation's website increased by 60 to 7.At the same time, Facebook is the first photo sharing sites in USA, 8.5 million photos uploaded every day. With theincrease in the number of users, Facebook's goal has been to point to another area: Internet search.

Site features
Facebooks features are too many so only choose some.

Wall The wall is a message board on the user profile page. Other users the right to browse the complete file of a user page, you can see the wall of the user. User message on the wall will be using the Feed output. Many users are leaving the SMS through the wall of their friends. More privacy of communication is through the message. Sending a message to the user's personal mailbox, like e-mail, only the recipient and the sender can see. Start on July 2007, the user can on the wall attachment. Before, it only allows text content.

Gift In February 2007, Facebook added a "gift" function. Friends can send each other "gifts" some interesting small icon are designed by former Apple designer Susan Kare. Users can choose the gift from Facebook's virtual gift shop and attach a message presented. Gifts received and the attached message will be displayed on the recipient of the "wall", unless the giver set this gift is the privacy. In addition, at the top of the wall, there is a "gift box". Users receive all the gifts in the gift box. Open gift will show the giver's name, the gift of the privacy shows "private".

Marketplace In May 2007, Facebook launched the Facebook market. Users are free to publish the following classified ad: sell second-hand goods, rent, work, and so on. Supply and demand sides can be released. All Facebook users can use this feature.

Status Status, so called as status updates is allowing users to tell their friends where are they now doing something on Facebook communities. Facebook allows users to fill in the state of the prompt is "(user name) is..". The user fills in the remaining part."Recently updated" area in the user's buddy list and it will show the status.

Events Facebook activities of features can help users to notify friends and tell them what event will happen and it help users to organize the line of social activities.

Advantage Through social services Web site, we have more direct contact with the friends and to build a larger circle of communication. It offers to find the user-friendly tools to help users find a lost contact with friends. The site usually has a lot of groups of like-minded and familiar with each other users. Relative to other ads, business advertising for special user groups is more targeted on the social networking. Shortcoming Some social service site does not make a profit, and therefore its business model has so far failed to achieve recognition of the industry. With the advent of the social service sites, browse these sites to take up more and more employees working hours. It cannot be achieved through the growth of the social activities carried out on the network to the growth of the real-life social interaction skills. Personal information security measures need to be improved.

The Internet will take human society into a new digital historical stage. Internet has evolved as the driving force behind the information economy and new engines, it evolved to reduce costs, increase productivity, and like bulldozers to pave the way for a variety of new jobs. Because the future high-speed network connection and an Internet connection is a universal standard, Internet will be everywhere. Our home, the office will have an incredible network connection speed, high-speed network connections over a variety of environments. The network will restrict our work, life and entertainment. Believe the application of the network will be the same as the growth rate of the number of Internet users have mushroomed endless, ever-changing.

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