Today social networks become increasingly widely spread. And with their developmet they started to determine all sides of people’s living. The summamry of many researches say that one-hald of the internet is in our time covered by social networks. The term social networks was created much earlier than the internet and virual networks. In the fifties of the previous century it was introduced by a famous sociologist James Barns. Since then social networks have turned into a popular tendency that became central in web 2.0 design. At present social network have developed a lot and there appeared a great quantity of networks created for different purposes, the most important of which are to find friends, to get acquainted, to find a job or an employee or to develop your business. The rivalry among social networks is extremely big now and only very quality and interesting sites can attract visitors now. This explains a great number of niche oriented social networks that became popular not long ago. Some of them are only for web developers, others allow to
meet black people from all over the world, some are for intersts. Social networks have a number of advantages as well as disadvantages. Here we will talk abut the most significant: 1. Address in the profile. On one hand, it is very convenient if you forgot the address of your friend or his phone number, you can quickly visit his profile in social network. But at the same time it is a risk to give such information as your phone number in public profile. Making this data visible only to the friends can solve this problem, but then you should be sure in all your friends. Also, many social networks never delete your information completely, so select wisely what information to give. 2. Escape from real life. Social networks help to make a process of communication easier and much more convenient. But if it becomes a habit and somebody stops to spend time with friends in real life it can create a problem. But there is one more significant advantage: in social networks people can communicate with friends from from various countries of the world and continents and borders can not stop them from having a talk. More than that, today new technologies, such as video chat, give users a chance to speak and see their friends in real time. 3. Content. These day in social networks all users have chance to find various media content: video, music, etc. First of all it is very comfortable that evey user can view any video or listen to popular songs online. But on the other hand it is usually difficult to find anything in networks due to a great amount of the content. 4. People. The more is the social network, the greater is the chance that you will find somebody you wish. On the other hand, narrower oriented social networks are better, if you know what you want. Today in some networks you can meet only with your colleagues, in other with specialists, some give possibilities for
black dating, others are for moms, etc. 5. But a quantity of spam in social networks is also very big. Now this task is being solved changing a usual method of communication by messages into
live chat, were only real people can take part. But on the whole social networks are a big innovation that may be combined with the creation of the internet. They made our living far easier and gave a real possibility to communicate with a enormous number of people from different countries without even leaving home.
