Importance of Social Networks Today
Importance of Social Networks Today
CAMPERO 2
MIDDLE SCHOOL
TARIJA–BOLIVIA
2023
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INDEX
1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 3
2 THEORICALO................................................................................................................................ 4
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1 INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, the internet is a very useful tool that is within everyone's reach, especially
for us young people, who are the main participants in this generation
technological and innovative. That is why today we give great importance and use to networks
online social
For the following reasons, in this monograph, we will discuss the objective for which I am carrying out
this monograph, providing them with knowledge of the current state of network development
social in the following areas (social, educational, business, and medical). Also its impact
in society its advantages and disadvantages and main usage risks.
OBJECTIVES
• General objective:
Determine the importance of the use of social media today and in the fields.
social
• Specific objectives:
• Use of social networks in various fields.
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• To understand the proper functioning of social networks.
• Impact of social media today.
• Main risks.
• Ventajas desventajas de las redes sociales.
• Determine the consequences of the misuse of a social network.
• Addiction.
2 THEORETICAL
A social network is a social structure in which there are people who are related.
among themselves. Therefore, it is a topic of great interest to many people, especially for those
young people and adolescents, in which they find relationships of friendship, kinship, economic,
search for romantic relationship, common interests, etc.
Social media are websites that provide services and fulfill the function of
communication among all users, in which they can exchange information that may
identify oneself in a group.
History
• Social networks seem like an 'invention' from just a few years ago. However, their seed
For such success, it was established several years ago. We will summarize below the
historia de los social media fechas importantes en su desarrollo:
• 2000: The 'internet bubble' bursts.
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• 2002: The Friendster portal is launched, a pioneer in the online connection of 'real friends'.
Reaches 3 million users in just three months.
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• 2003: The MySpace website is launched, initially conceived as a 'clone' of
Friendster. Created by an online marketing company, its first version was
encoded in just 10 days.
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• 2004: Facebook is launched, originally conceived as a platform to connect.
to university students. Its starting shot took place at the University of
Harvard and more than half of its 19,500 students subscribed to it during its
first month of operation.
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• 2005: YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, California, United States by
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
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• 2006: The microblogging network Twitter is inaugurated.
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• 2008: Facebook surpasses MySpace as the leading social network in terms of visitors
monthly unique.
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• In 2021, the number of users on social media channels has increased by 9.9% (more than
400 million in the last 12 months, reaching a total of 4.55 trillion in what
from October 2021.
• In 2022, the average daily use of social media by Internet users was
worldwide level was around 151 minutes per day
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4 MAIN SOCIAL NETWORKS TODAY
• Facebook: Founded on February 4, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United, by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg. It is estimated to exceed
1 billion users in August 2013.
Undoubtedly, Facebook is the social network that attracts the most users, as famous people, companies and
people generally use it for different purposes such as advertising, socializing, etc. It is a
social networking site created by Mark Zuckerberg and founded along with Eduardo Saverin,
Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. It was originally a site for students.
Harvard University. Its purpose was to design a space where the students of that
university could exchange fluid communication and share content in a way
simple through the Internet. His project was so innovative and successful that over time it
expanded until it was available for any user on the network.
In mid-2007, it launched the French, German, and Spanish versions translated by users.
on an unpaid basis, primarily to boost its expansion outside of States
United, since its users are concentrated in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Its main infrastructure consists of a network of over 50,000 servers that use
distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system using LAMP.
The main criticisms of the social network and the company have always focused on the alleged
lack of privacy suffered by its millions of users. These criticisms intensified in 2013,
when it was discovered that the National Security Agency of the United States and others
intelligence agencies monitor the profiles of millions of users and their relationships with
friends and colleagues.
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On April 9, 2012, it was announced that Facebook acquired Instagram for 1 billion.
dollars. In February 2014, Facebook officials announced the purchase of the service
the mobile messaging WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg created
Facebook during the time he was a student at Harvard University. When this network
social began to gain popularity, Mark dropped out of his studies at Harvard. The company
it currently has its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. In 2003, Zuckerberg launched
At the university, there was a website called Facemash that brought together several photographs.
and names of Harvard students, this site was available only for a few hours and for
this incident was brought before the university officials, who blamed Mark for
reported having withdrawn data and images from the institution's computer system; suspended
Mark of classes, who then left the university the following year to create Facebook.
At some point in 2004, Sean Parker, creator of Napster, learned of the existence of
thefacebook through his girlfriend. Parker already had experience in social networks as being
shareholder of Friendster, which was then the most popular. Due to the difference in audience between
both, Parker sensed that thefacebook could have greater potential. He had an interview with
Zuckerberg to negotiate to enter as executive president, in exchange for eliminating the the
name leaving it as Facebook. In 2005, Sean Parker was expelled from the position of
executive president after being arrested as a suspect of cocaine possession.
The idea of creating a web-based community where people could share their tastes and
Feelings is not new, as David Bohnett, creator of Geocities, had incubated it in the late
from the 1980s. One of Zuckerberg's strategies was to open the Facebook platform to
other developers.
There is also a movie about the beginnings of Facebook titled The Social Network.
• Twitter: Founded in 2006 in the U.S. Its structure allows users to publish and share
images and messages that do not exceed 140 characters, in addition, the original
the way of communicating with only 120 letters is very curious and useful for
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many, while being very attractive and catchy, so much so that the famous and even the
The Vatican has its own Twitter account like all of us.
If you follow someone, it means you will see their tweets (the messages they write on Twitter).
in your 'timeline' or 'chronology', (the ordered set of all messages over time that
you receive from all the people you follow.
That is to say, a Twitter user decides who to follow, but the person they follow does not.
It necessarily has to follow him.
That is an important difference from other social networks like Facebook where the relationship is
symmetric, that is, if I request to be friends with someone on Facebook or send an invitation to
connect me as a contact.
This scheme debunks one of the main fallacies about Twitter: that it is the assertion
Since there are many people who misuse it, with worthless messages, insults, false information,
Twitter is full of garbage.
It is true that there are many people who use Twitter poorly and that there are a lot of garbage messages, but
the other truth that this fallacy omits is that you do not receive all this information, but only
the messages from those you follow. In this sense, to say that Twitter is not useful for
Nothing because it's full of garbage is a statement as ignorant as saying that the Internet doesn't
serves no purpose because it is full of nonsense.
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• YouTube: Born in December 2005, it is the video publishing platform.
most used in the world. Numerous companies have a corporate channel here or
users also upload or hang entertainment videos which helps to
distract users from their daily lives.
The other big novelty was the social network aspect of YouTube.
In fact, it is often talked about YouTube as a social network even more than a
video hosting site.
On YouTube, users can interact, they can make votes of 'like' or 'dislike'.
they like
user, what would be equivalent, for example, to following another user on YouTube as a
Subscribed users will see updates from the channels they have subscribed to every time they log in.
on YouTube.
Your videos can be public or private, you can group them by sections (they would be something like
like tags) and playlists (useful for concatenating several videos, for example,
from a course) and little more.
Concluding
This moment in which we are going through one of the most economic situations
complicated things that have been remembered for many decades ironically is also a
a time when there are opportunities for 'normal' people like never before.
Thanks to the Internet and new 2.0 inventions like YouTube, your chances of professional success
they have to do more and more with your talent and your merits, and less with your sponsors, as I believe
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as can be seen quite well in the previous examples. Cheer up, you are in a situation
good or bad, give this a chance. The moment is now as I am not clear about it.
that you can achieve in a few years continues to be possible.
• Google: It is one of the oldest social networks since Google serves as a search engine.
main information that we users share through this medium to
fill our knowledge and be able to share it with others as well
It includes websites for business, entertainment, sports, and showbiz.
• Google+: Almost three years after its launch in June 2011, Google+ has
currently with over 400 million users and more than one million pages of
companies and brands created. However, and despite being a great tool for
marketing to generate visibility, Google+ is still an misunderstood platform and
underutilized by many businesses. Beyond its function as a social network, Google+ is a
powerful content promoter in the search engine.
Google+ is a social network that, like any other social network, allows interaction with
people and companies that can be classified into circles according to their affinity or type of
relationship you maintain with each one. In the circles, classify each of the people with the
that have contact and play a specific role (this will determine in which circle it includes them).
You can create as many circles as you want, with the names and meanings that you want and have.
meaning for you (not visible to others).
The main benefit of Google+ is that the content you publish on this network, whether with your
personal profile or with your business page, is indexed by Google to appear in the
searches that people make in the search engine, increasing the chances of bringing more
visitors to your Google+ page or website. That is, your content becomes more visible in
the network.
After having your personal profile on Google+, the next step will be to link it with the
content that generates on your website in a way that Google associates it and displays your profile in
the results of the searches. This linking allows Google to validate that you (to
through their personal profile) is the author of that content.
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This association goes in two ways, on one hand, including its address on its website.
Google+ (URL of your profile) and on the other hand putting the address of in your Google+ profile.
your website (URL of your page).
On your website: To link it, in the user profile of your website (if you use WordPress
In Users of the main menu), include the URL of your personal Google profile
Instagram is a social network and application for uploading photos and videos. Its users also
They can apply photographic effects such as filters, frames, thermal similarities, areas
underlying in the concave bases, retro and vintage colors (old), and later
share the photographs on the same social network or others like Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and
Twitter. A distinctive feature of the application is that it gives a square shape to the
photographs in honor of the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, contrasting with the
aspect ratio 16:9 and 4:3 that most phone cameras currently use
mobiles. Nowadays, photos can be in horizontal and vertical without the use of borders
whites, although these are partially cut. There is also a means of communication.
private to talk called Instagram Direct.
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and was launched in October 2010.
This application quickly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users in
April 2012 and surpassed 300 million in December 2014. Instagram was designed
originally for iPhone and at the same time available for its siblings iPad and iPod with the
iOS system 3.0.2 or higher. In early April 2012, a version was released for
Android, and in 2013 the beta version was launched for Windows Phone and the official version for Windows 10
in 2016
Starting from version 4.0, the application allows the user to record videos with a duration
maximum of 1 minute. This new tool includes image stabilization.
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It is worth highlighting among other functions to whom those photographs are directed, as one can choose.
between having your account open for all types of users to observe your photographs,
private only for your followers or send the photo via direct message to one or several people
specifically.
• Hangouts was announced on May 15, 2013, at the Google I/O event by Vic
Gundotra while giving his presentation about the new image of Google+.
it was released on the same day for various platforms such as Android.
Hangouts works on your computer and with Android and Apple devices, so you will be able to
talk to everyone.
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Through the app, it sends more than 400 million photos a day (more than on Facebook), and only
It is necessary to see the impact it has generated worldwide (and that is also happening in Spain).
and in Latin countries, although to a lesser extent than in Anglo-Saxon countries) since it began its
and began in September 2011. At its core, Snapchat operates similarly to an app
instant messaging, allowing you to add contacts and send them messages in the form of
photos or videos individually or in groups. The main difference is that you select the
time that the receiver will be able to see that message (from 1 to 10 seconds) before it is destroyed.
That is to say, you send your photo, edit it if you want (you can add a small text or draw)
above) and you send it to whoever you want specifying the time they will be able to access it.
Afterwards, the user is notified that they have a message and can view it by clicking on the
message during the specified time by which it was sent (if you stop pressing, it stops
this way it is more difficult for the user to capture an image or screenshot of the screen
yes.
Snapchat is perhaps the fastest app for taking a photo with your mobile and sharing it,
so its advantages are that it allows you to share quickly, fleetingly, and imperfectly,
that being temporary, there is no obsession with perfection that exists in other tools
like Instagram. Brands are also using Snapchat for different purposes.
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and are part of their daily life. As Ana Rossaro said, 'social networks are the new'
educational paradigm, the construction of a new way of thinking about education.
This new learning environment emphasizes collective intelligence by establishing
new structures of participation, since we all contribute knowledge, we use various
sources of knowledge and we collaborate to make a learning process a reality which
it is a big change for teachers both in habits and in attitude.
• Some examples for teachers to be able to reach or provide the tools to
his students:
• Use or create an application or learning group on Facebook or a wiki for
carry out group work.
• Invite students to attend a class via streaming.
• Answer questions, assign tasks, and announce event and exam dates.
Facebook, WhatsApp.
• To have notes of the subject on a blog.
• Help make research more fun using webquest.
Currently, social networks are encompassing a large part of our daily lives, as
There are social networks for all tastes and hobbies like the ones mentioned earlier.
In this case, we will cover the impact of social media on the health sector, normally the
The information we search for on the internet about health refers to some type of illness.
we seek the necessary information to prevent or eliminate this disease, which
these pages are created by doctors as medical blogs, or medical pages in which
they upload information about diseases followed by topics on nutrition, healthy habits, and
medications.
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Medical professionals have different social networks for communicating, sharing
experiences or cases, and many health communities have been created where users
They can express their doubts (neome, saluspos, among others).
52% of the information we search for on the Internet about health refers to some type of
disease.
41% of respondents say that social media influences their choice of hospital.
the doctor.
It is not only advertising to get new customers, but also aims to seek the
identification with the brand, obtaining important information, critiques and observations of
product or service.
The interesting thing is that it is free, but you need time and effort, both for your business.
small one who wishes to make themselves known, like for an already established brand that wishes to
These networks often act as a tool for managing customer relationships for
companies that sell products and services. Companies can also use networks
social media for advertising in the form of advertisements.
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7 SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE SOCIAL FIELD
Social Networks have been the main provider of instant communication between several
people who are far apart from each other, the impact it has had varies depending on the
user or person who occupies it, the intentions with which they are established also influence
started using.
Considered by many as the main advantage, it is what allows us to learn and internalize.
of the norms and values necessary to interact appropriately with another individual, already
that it be with friends from the past, current ones, new friendships.
Social networks offer us a range of possibilities, to connect with friends, people from
another part of the world, cultures, long-distance relationships, greater contact and dynamism of
cultural movements among users.
As we have been mentioning, social media helps us in many areas with which
we can highlight that they help us in our daily lives because they have all the information
necessary that could help us in day-to-day in both professional and personal matters
entertainment.
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8 RISKS OF USING SOCIAL NETWORKS
Social networks are good, but they come with many risks due to abuse of the network or
misuse of it that can generate very serious consequences. The risks are
bidirectional, on one hand, minors can be victims of threats or visual harassment or
for not knowing, they may find themselves violating some rule regarding privacy of the
dissemination of information, photos of another person (case of Milett Figeroa).
Another form of misuse of social networks leads many people to use the internet to access
to all kinds of content: violent, sexual, related to substance use, etc. This
It can come from links published or shared by other users or links, notices, etc.
But it's a matter of weeks before these figures become outdated and throughout the same year.
we can find completely different records.
Loss of privacy.
Every data, information, photo, video or file uploaded to a social network becomes part of the
administrators' files. At the same time, misuse of networks leads to the ease of
find your own data. Such as password theft, personal information theft from accounts
from social networks, manipulation of our accounts.
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9 VENTAJAS Y DESVENTAJAS DE LAS REDES SOCIALES
Social Media are becoming increasingly important in today's society, reflecting the
the need of human beings for expression and recognition, as Aristotle well said, 'Man'
it is a social being by nature,
needs to live in society, since being a rational and individual creature, it is not self-sufficient.
and requires the help and protection of others of its kind, which is why it forms communities.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
• They are dangerous if privacy is not configured correctly, as they expose our
private life.
• There can be cases of identity theft.
• Missing in data control.
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• They can be addictive and consume a lot of our time, as they are ideal for
leisure.
• They can take over all the content we publish.
• They can be used by criminals to learn information about their victims in crimes:
such as sexual harassment and abuse, kidnapping, human trafficking, etc.
10 CONCLUSION
In these articles, the proposed objectives at the beginning have been able to be developed.
monograph. Since the research studies conducted give us a bit more insight
about what famous social networks are, where we can observe their pros and cons,
we can also observe the level of addiction we have for them.
Social media is an open channel through which we can obtain the necessary information.
for labor, educational, and entertainment development. Without forgetting that the networks
social issues with weapons that crime uses to commit wrongdoing.
? It is also an open channel for pedophilia, pornography, and many other crimes.
the main affected are us, the young people and children who are exposed to everything.
class of information or content from social networks.
Social media is a very broad topic that could be updated over time.
of the week so this small research conducted is not enough.
One of the best ways to avoid this is to raise awareness among users of these types.
of networks, by not providing information without the approval of laws or authorities.
11 RECOMMENDATIONS
• Within the reanalyzed research work, we can provide the following
recomendaciones para un mejor desarrollo de la red social en la sociedad:
• Increase the precautions regarding what is published and made known in the different
social platforms, in order to improve our lifestyle on social media.
• If it is necessary to investigate further about the topic discussed for better understanding.
about social networks.
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• Parents of young people should worry more about what their children publish and the
information that they can disclose on any social network.
• Be careful with the people we add.
• Keep in mind that the personal information we upload could be copied or used.
for other purposes.
• Moderate personal information
• Know and configure the privacy options in detail
• Identify the functions and effects of that action.
• Protect personal data
• Bet on reflection
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Illustration 2 MOST USED APPLICATIONS 'SOCIAL NETWORKS'
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DEDICATION
I dedicate this work to my family, to my colleagues, who have been by my side all this time.
I am doing this work and to everyone who helped me as writers,
I dedicate this work to the facilitators with a very big thank you.
THANK YOU
I want to thank God for giving me the drive and strength to move forward, I want to
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my brother Vekin Galo Tovar for encouraging me in
the course of the project's development and without their support this work could not have been accomplished
reality.
I also thank my parents, who have always been giving me what I need, for
support me and understand me because of the stress obtained during the course of development
semester. Thank you for your support in good and bad times. This achievement is also yours.
you all.
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