Social networks, virtual relations

There are many users that use them, including political figures, the world of culture and entertainment. Its influence, both positive and negative-increases exponentially.
Some time ago that social networks became an environment where relationships, decreasing, or sometimes replacing the natural act of socializing as always done, not being required spatial or temporal coincidence between the participants.
This type of media encourage interaction among people around the world, allowing photo sharing, videos, comments and what is done at the time.He took off and face to face contact, and equipping of friendship in an impersonal way, virtual, artificial and, above all, comfortable to be born, grow and maintain.
These social networks that support digital emotions can turn a double-edged sword, offering advantages and disadvantages.
If this is successful, Facebook takes the cat to water, is the queen of all platforms of this style. The narrow framework of this network, has managed to catch over 250 million users in the vast sea of Internet, that number grows significantly each minute.

Its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2004, while studying at Harvard University, launched this site, bounded on the environment of its faculty. Five years later, has become the favorite destination connection bands.
The truth is that studies say a Facebook user type account dedicated to its half 4 hours and 40 minutes, time that could have been personally with your contacts, having read 95 pages of a book or have made a dinner for all your friends.H owever, the creators of this revolution on the rise not believe that "prevent physical contact or personal" but "simply facilitate communication, as was already at the time of the chat, as defended Victor Domingo, president of the Spanish Association of Internet users.
Twitter, Hi5, Orkut, MySpace, Sonic, Friendster, Tuenti ... are other examples that share similarities and purpose with those previously named. Seek to gain the largest number of followers and have the widest possible support.There are many people who have an account on these sites, rare cases that do not have one, and increasing the number of youth discharged from different networks at once.
The influential people in society have realized that it is impossible to ignore this reality, and not only become part of it, but use it in pursuit of their interests.
Teen idols the Jonas Brothers as they maintain accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, gaining popularity among the younger population and providing an opportunity for fans to interact with them.
Ashton Kutcher is entertained in his board hanging Twitter photos of his wife, Demi Moore, with a shaved head to blow in Photoshop, or leaving little declarations of love.The world of politics, in constant liaison with the electorate, could not be left behind. At what point in history could know what was the very President of the United States at any time ", now you can.
Barack Obama, president of one of the world's most powerful nations, is an asset "Twittered" and edits a page on Facebook.
Thanks to this we know that Mill Davis or John Coltrane are two of the authors whose music like Obama, his hobbies are "spending time with my daughters," or that the Bible is among his favorite books.However, not surprisingly, are subject to special arrangements for safety reasons.

"I think we'll see a huge increase in the use of social networks on the Internet by the government," said the director of Internet resources and Development Interagency White House, Bev Godwin.
In Spain, the PP (Partido Popular) created a page for its leader, Mariano Rajoy, tired of the proliferation of fake profiles to your identity.
The small-scale world built by Facebook - taken from its effects to other social networks-threatening, according to experts, academic performance, and can even cause emotional disorders."Abusing Facebook may affect the development of human emotions, and the compression or admiration," is one of the conclusions resulting in a report by the Institute of Brain and Creativity at the University of Southern California.
The study focuses on the emotional cost of the large number of inquiries posted on these supports.
The human mind is slow to process feelings of compassion and admiration, and when receiving a lot of negative information about our contacts, a kind of desensitization.
"We need a little time and reflection to process some types of thoughts, especially the moral decision-making on the physical and psychological status of others," said Mary Helen Immordirno-Yang, one of the authors of the report.

In another study conducted by Ohio University, found, after reviewing the academic performance of 200 students, that the misuse of Facebook had a negative impact on school performance.The experiment could not exclude other constraints, however Aryn Karpinski, responsible for the report, said that "no one can say that Facebook made to a student to study less or get worse grades, but is related in some way and have to look at this problem more thoroughly. "
Not just here the stones in the path of these networks. Privacy and data policy have aroused great debate.The photos are uploaded, casually, can be viewed by our contacts as well as personal data such as telephone, email address, age, preferences ... this type of information is a delicious delicacy, highly demanded by companies that rely on it its marketing and sales.
Earlier this year, the hare leaped on Facebook. The company amended the terms of privacy, which are accepted to create an account, and in which almost never be repaired.
For changes, Facebook had all rights to the material published on its website, even after being discharged.
This was denounced by the American blog "Costumerist", provoking protests from many users. Facebook recapped and returned to their previous terms of use, but leaves a big question about the risks of social networks.Remain trapped for millions of people around the world, accompanied by theories such as the six degrees of separation - argues that each person is connected to another stranger for no more than seven intermediaries, these media are used to connect with friends, create new relationships with strangers or know what the neighbor.
The discussion of whether they are destroying traditional patterns, or not, remains open, as new media emerge and expand existing uncontrollably.