Trends

The Social Networks Trend

Internet is one of the most used tools that mankind has developed. This  tool is actually used to chat, transfer files, enterprise applications, banking applications, shop, sell, and now meet people or be in touch with all the people that you know.

The best example of this  is the Social Networks, but what is a social network in  Internet?

A Social Network is a web based social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

There are  a lot of examples of these social networks such as   Facebook, Twitter, Tagged, Hi5, MySpace, Badoo.

Personally, the success of this trend is the spread factor. Thanks to  Internet Internet Social Networks have become one of the biggest trends in the global society.

But there are good aspects and bad aspects related to this trend.I will enumerate some of them. One positive aspect is the long distance communication among people. The increase of social interaction (even if the interaction is in a virtual way) improves communications among organizations, companies, and groups with everybody who is in the social network.  However, we have  some negative  aspects as the loss of real social interaction, the increasing fear to this real interaction among humans, the increasing number of obese people due to their lack of exercising, and the increase of  Internet addiction as well. Social  networks are very  useful depending on the way they are used, so it is up to us if we want to take advantage of this trend.