Advantages and disadvantages of social networks.

Social networks are websites that allow people to connect with their friends, meet people, and even make some new friends. Furthermore, it enable people share content, to interact, create communities of similiar interests: work, readings, games, friendship, relationships, relationships commercial, and others. The origins of social networks began in 1995, when the american Randy Conrads created the Web site "classmates.com". With this network site, Conrads wanted people be able to regain or maintain contact with former classmates, college, and university. In 2002, came out the first Web sites promoting online circles of friends or relations in virtual communities. These sites grew rapidly and were refined to form the space of social networking sites. Social networks continue growing and gaining popularity. Teengers and young adults, usually college students and professional adults with Internet access, are mostly the users of this social networks.

We know, social networks have its advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of social networks are that it help people to keep in touch with their relatives and friends from a distance in a very convenient manner, it is a good way to promote products and services, it help charitable works or charities to deliver their needs to help other people, it allow people to finda job (maybe locally and abroad), and are a perfect way to look for partners, dates or people can even utilize it on looking for lost pets and relatives. Nevertheless, disadvantages of networks are that it can take a lot of our time and can hold us back engaging in other important activities such as family bonding, our privacy is in big jeopardy because of social media. Social networks can be used to promote crime and it is a perfect venue for act of bullying. The scope of advantages and disadvantages of social networking is actually vast.

 

Despite we have a lot to gain by using social networks it also make people to lose personal contact; lose friends, family, time for studies, and another things. We must stop using some social networks to return to have time with our families and others. So much have been lost because of beign too much time using social networks. We have to use this source consciously and without harming others.

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