Title: Social Networking

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Advantages of online social networks:

• make connections with a very large number of people

• make connections with people who may be a long way from each other.

• connect with people from different countries, societies, cultures and with different habits and characteristics.

• choose between a large number of social groups with similar interests

• communicate with many different cultures and broaden your horizons

• work and collaborate for common purposes with people who can be anywhere on earth

• search and find content that users could not access in a different way

• obtain direct and first-hand information on anything that happens in the world

• have easy access to entertainment content, from home, such as videos or games.

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Disadvantages of online social networks:

• waste time on useless things

• get addicted by spending many hours on it

• lose privacy by making photos and personal data public, which may be used in the future to harm or expose you.

• replace physical contact and face-to-face communication with friends with that of social networks

• develop virtual and fake relationships

• keep language level low

• be deceived by various messages

• fall victim to cyberbullying through social media

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The most popular SOCIAL NETWORKS today are:

FACEBOOK (www.facebook.com)

Facebook remains the most popular social network. It is the social networking giant with 1.50 billion active users each month. In addition, Facebook Messenger is the second most popular messaging app. It's second, with whatsup first. After failing to buy Snapchat in 2013, facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 and is now the first in the field of instant messaging.

TWITTER (twitter.com)

People love twitter because of the small size of the messages, which is limited to 140 characters. Brands use it a lot and inform about everything. Twitter has changed dramatically in recent years and is now on the road to Facebook's success.

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LINKEDIN (www.linkedin.com)

LinkedIn is the social network for professionals. Anyone who wants to improve their career or meet people who will help them in their work should be on LinkedIn. LinkedIn profiles are designed to resemble a resume, and that's basically what it is: now the LinkedIn profile is our resume. It enables us to present our knowledge, our studies, our skills, our degrees and certifications, the praise and distinctions we may have received, our professional experience, the companies we have worked for. It is possible to create groups, create presentation pages, post job postings and apply for a job.

YOUTUBE (www.youtube.com)

YouTube is the site we all go to to watch videos. After google, youtube is the second largest search engine. Although owned by google, YouTube is recognized by the world as a separate social network and as a separate search engine.

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INSTAGRAM (www.instagram.com)

Instagram is evolving into one of the most popular social networks for sharing photos from mobile phones. It is the ultimate social network for real-time photo sharing or small videos. Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $ 1 billion.

PINTEREST (gr.pinterest.com)

Pinterest has managed to become one of the most important players in both social networking and search, proving how important visual content is to the web. The next step in Pinterest's development is to enter the world of e-commerce. This already starts with adding "Buy" buttons to the pin of products sold by some companies.

VINE (vine.co)

Vine is a video sharing app. This app is owned by Twitter and is a lot of fun. Especially those who do not have the patience to watch a great video on youtube, it is certain that they will love Vine. A strong point of Vine is that you can embed the video in the tweet.

SNAPCHAT (www.snapchat.com)

Snapchat is a social network that started with instant messaging and only works on mobile phones. It is one of the fastest growing social networks. He bases his success on the redistribution of "snaps". A "snap" can be a video or a picture or a message that we send to a friend. Kids love Snapchat because it is posted on friends and not on everyone as it is on traditional social networks.

Is anyone "watching" me? Let's see on a typical day what kind of online tracks we leave.

7:15 You read your e-mail - the provider records the time you logged in to your account, the sender of your message, and the time the message was sent to you.

7:30 You "download" a song on iPod - the company that sells you the song records your e-mail and your music preferences.

12:00 A friend takes a picture of you with your cell phone - the picture is funny and says you can upload it later on Facebook.

15:00 You surf the internet - the browser you use records the pages you visit. Some pages install small cookies on your computer so that they can recognize you when you visit them again.

15:30 You click on an ad that is interesting - the ad company records your preferences so that it can send you offers for products that interest you.

18:00 You're looking for information about a project you want to google. All the searches you make are recorded, along with the time of the search and the network address (IP) with which your computer is connected.

21:00 You log in to Facebook - you read what your friends did today and you write your own news. You can see that you have been tagged in today's photo that your colleague has already uploaded and some people have already commented. You accept friend requests for two new friends, even though you don't know one very well.

How are our data used? When it comes to internet privacy, we are talking about the ability of some companies to track the websites we visit.

By processing this data they can understand our gender, our age, our personal preferences, the books, movies and music we like, our eating habits, the places we go on vacation, pretty much everything we care about and we search through the computer.

It is important to know that when browsing the Internet, we leave traces using any browser. When we simply look at information on the Internet, the browser gives us the computer's IP and the pages we visited on the Internet Provider (ISP).

It is no coincidence that if we visit an online store, for example with clothes, we will start to see ads for the same store or for its individual products on other, unrelated sites, such as YouTube or a news website.

Similarly, if we are looking to go on an excursion, we may see ads from specific hotels to car rentals, airline tickets and camping equipment.