Social Networking

SOCIAL NETWORKING: Meaning The word/ term « social networking « was used to distinguish network for commercial (business) purpose and for social purpose. Now a social networking represents an online service, a website where we are able to chat with other people and leave them comments (for example: Facebook, MySpace. There are sites that allow people to comment). Not only persons use social network, as well as the companies in order to promote their products and make them known. It permits to create easily relations with people sharing same interests, activities, ... Every user has his own profile representing (most of the time) himself and her/his social links and a lot of another information about her/ him. At first there were funny websites but sadly, becoming more and more popular, persons use them to bully other persons (like gays, fat persons...) which often ended badly (as suicide). Another problem is the privacy of those websites. Often our informations' on those can be viewed by a lot of persons and not only our friend. It can be viewed by thieves, spammers, companies and even a potential boss (in this case, it can have an effect on our (future) job). Thankfully it doesn't happen all the time but we have to be careful PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. A little bit of history about it: At first social networking were based on the same theme (like religion, studies...) and were for a professional aim or just for fun and can be free or paid. The first social networking website was classmate.com in 1995; it was a website enabling people to find their friend of "primary school, college, high school, university, former colleagues and veterans". This little anecdote to see that this kind of websites exists for a long-time (approximately 18 years). Social networking websites online exists since 2001 who become more popular with Friendster (in 2002. It became so popular that in 2005, My Space achieved a higher rate of visited pages than Google! Since 2009, Facebook (launched in 2004) become the biggest social networking website in the world (in only 5years). Now there are more than 200 social networking sites such as: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+, Bebo, AsianAvenue (a website for Asian people living in America), Cafemom (for the mother), Buzznet (music and pop-culture), and BiGadda (for Indian peo...