social networks are internet sites which allow you to communicate with others on the internet. You can share information about yourself presenting yourself on your page about your interests and activities, this is called a profile which most social networking sites have. It can allow you to make statuses, pictures, videos and also audios.

*What is social

networking?

*What was the first social networking

site? *Not many people know what

the first social networking site was

*Some think its my space

*Friendster

*The Well

*wrong!.. The first social networking site was actually The electronic email most commonly known as the email

*The Electronic Mail

*The electronic mail (email) first officially appeared as early as 1971.

*It was a way of exchanging digital messages to one another.

*Some emails required you to be online at the same time as the receiver allowing you to talk more instantly, this was common with instant messaging.

*In Todays World

From our research the amount of social network users around the world in 2013 is1.73 That is almost every 1-4 people using social networks.

*STATISTICS!

*Total number of Facebook users around the world is 1.4 BILLION!

*Average amount of tweets per day is 190 million!

*Total amount of YouTube page views per month is 92 billion!

*Israel is the most engaged country averaged out to 11.1 hours spent per month on social networks.

THE GOOD AND THE BAD EFFECTS

*You get to know what’s happening around you with the latest news and gossip

*You get to share picture’s and videos with friends and family

*You get to stay in touch with all your friends and family

*Communicating is much easier– reduces communication barriers.

*You can conduct meetings and group projects

* It can also remind you about your assignments and projects etc.

*Good for businesses to promote the products on social networking sites.

THE GOOD EFFECTS OF

SOCIAL NETWORKING

*Invasion of privacy – everyone knows what you’re doing or what you get up to and where you have been

*It can be a big distraction with everything you do – e.g. studying.

*Can get very attached and addicted to it

*There are some wrong information released by unauthorized people that causes fear- this can also lead to cyber bullying.

*Social networking sites can lead to stress and offline relationship problemsTHE BAD

EFFECTS OF SOCIAL

NETWORKING

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-media-good-thing-or-bad-thing

* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/311/5757/88.abstract