In this blog we'll be talking esentially about the Internet and how it affects our world.

viernes, 16 de abril de 2010

Social Networks have turned our life upside down


Social networks are now an important part of our lifes, or at least to the ones who have a profile on one of them. Well... actually to that people too if they want to be informed and in touch with their friends because they won't be able to be so. Social networks grab you as if gravity made you check you're profile EVERYDAY.

Of course there are several things you have to think about when you first create a profile in a social network. First of all you have to decide if you are up to having the need of checking on it almost everyday(believe me, it will happen, but don't worry you get over it). And second and most important of all, privacy. You have to know how much you want to share with the world, and we say it right, anything you upload to the internet is capable of been seen by almost anyone with some interest of it. Me for example, when I first joined the "world of social networks" I didn't mind and said lots of things about myself, nowadays I'm much more careful in that field. It seem like when you "get older" you become more picky about you pivate and personal stuff. There is actually an article at The Washington Post talking about how young adults care about their privacy much more than teenagers, and it is quite interesting. You can read this article at the link that goes with this post, but I'm not sure if you have to register to be able to read it.

Social networks it's a whole new world I sometimes wish had never entered, but if you are careful and use them consciously you can get a lot of good things from them and they sure are a huge progress in the times to come.


Link: Washington Post