Social networking

Government applications
Social networking is more recently being used by various government
agencies. Some important agencies are using social networking, like
NASA, it have twitter.
Business applications
Social network can help other entities. Social networks connect people at
low cost; this can be beneficial for big and small business looking to
expand their contact bases.
Dating applications
Many social networks provide an online environment for people to
communicate and exchange personal information for dating purposes.
However, an important difference between social networks and online
dating services is the fact that online dating sites usually require a fee,
where social networks are free.
Educational applications
The National School Boards Association reports that almost 60 percent of
students who use social networking talk about education topics online,
and more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork.This sadistic
shows that in the actuallity many teens and children are interesting
about the combination of education and network application.
Finance applications
The use of virtual currency systems inside social networks create new
opportunities for global finance.
Medical and health applications
Social networks are begging to be used by health-care professionals. This
help a lot because its gon to help a lot of people than cant assist to a
special center.
Social and political applications
Social networking sites have recently showed a value in social and
political movements

Social networking helps us a lot with the communicate, but sometimes
social networking are used to do bad things. Many times social networks
invades the privacy of the people. In many times it was used to commit
crimes, and the most regular are sexual crimes.

Typical Features
• We can make a public profile, that everyone can see, or we can make a
semi-public profile, he one that only our friends can see.
• We can search for people who have our same interests.
• We can have a list of friends that we share connection with and who
can view our profile.
Additional Features
• We can create groups.
• We can share or view videos.

Privacy: There are so many problems because we post or share too many
information about ourselves and other people see it and can do
something wrong and bad to us.
Data mining: It is when companies improve their selling by posting
information, but sometimes some networks use it to maybe steal to the
person.
Notifications on websites : Networks send us positive notifications about
whats going on, but this way users can commit a crime.
Access to information: In many times teens don't want that their parents
watch what they do or what the post or share; so they create a private
account.
Potential of misuse:People many times create free false profiles to harm
others.
Unauthorized access: There are so many possible things that you or
anybody can do to enter to any profile and post whatever with your
name.
Risk for child safety: Social networks increase the risk of depression
ansiety and is the possibility to being attacked by a sexual predator.
Trolling: People so many times use the networks for emotionally bother
other people. This is something that in a lot of cases the people don't
make a big problem, but this is terrible for a person.
Online bullying: It happens constantly and it leads to a emotional trauma
for the victim.

Interpersonal communication: “I fear the day when the technology
overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of
idiots.” -Albert Einstein. The normal talking is loosing signification thank
you the networks social.
Psychological efects of networking: People spend ans excessive time in
them and it becomes addictive.
Patents : The number of patents in the US has grown because of new
applications, but some people do not patent them and other only copy
them. This is a crime
Worker´s rights: Many companies fire workers because they don´t need
them anymore because they use social networks. People loose they
works because of social networks
Descentralized : The SNS sites use one or multiple dedicated data
centers to serve all its users and they face over-provisioning during nonpeak
hours
Virtual identity suicide: People quit their users and many they commit a
virtual identity suicide.
Breaking up: Now people break up by a social network instead of face-toface.
This is stupid bad happens a lot of times.