Social networking in Europe and China

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By way of introduction, we can say that in recent years, we have noticed a sharp increase and improvement of the web tools. In passing the web 1.0, most of the websites were commercial in nature or communicative about the web 2.0 which allows users to enrich the content of websites according to their desires or feelings. That's why users move from a position of consumers to a position of full players on the web platform. In having much more involved visitors in this virtual life than in the past, we can observe the arrival of a community center grouped by interests and ideas, these are what we call 'social networks'.

The first thing that needs to be said is that Social networks are communities of individuals or organizations in direct or indirect relations, collected according to the center of common interest, such as musical tastes, hobbies or professional life.
What should be established at the very outset is that nowadays, many Internet websites are the source of creations of such networks, they allow the user to register and create a sort of virtual identity card, most often called 'profile'. The network is called 'social' because it lets you exchange with other members on the same network, for example: public and private messages, hyperlinks, videos, pictures and games. The fundamental ingredient for a good social network is the ability to add 'friends' and manage their contact list.

According to a study conducted by comeScore in July 2009, Russia was in the first position for the number of hours spent on social networks with 6 hours a week per person. France was located in the 16th position with 3 hours per week, personally I spend between 5 and 7 hours per week on Facebook.

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[...] The choice of applications to display on a Facebook profile is left to the user who can add remove or conceal from the public. The success of these applications allowed many designers, beginners or experts to offer their applications to the web or destined for local use. According to the website Facebook there were 8000 different applications in 2007. II. The risk associated with social networks 1. The private life of users Today it is hard to open a newspaper nowadays without being faced with some example of problem users private life on social networks. [...]

[...] Social Network in Europe 1. Definition of Social Network The first thing that needs to be said is that Social networks are a community of individuals or organizations in direct or indirect relations, collected according to the center of common interest, such as musical tastes, hobbies or professional life. What should be established at the very outset is that nowadays many Internet websites are the source of creations of such networks, they allow the user to register and create a sort of virtual identity card most often called profile The network is called social because it lets you exchange with others members on the same network for example: public and private messages, hyperlinks, videos, pictures or games. [...]

[...] It is sometimes forgotten that some companies use Facebook to collect informations on their employees as that recruiters would use it for their selection of candidates and future hires. Parents would also serve to monitor the lives of their children. Event the General information may collect information and complete their files, so it is placing on a voluntary file. You will ask me why with all those risks, social networks are so successful? To me, social networks are not dangerous from the time they are good used and when a self censure is made. By censure I mean that our whole life is not spread over such networks. [...]

[...] What we are mainly concern here is that these social networks are not seen in the same way throughout the world. One side of the world is based on freedom of the internet and the other based on censorship. My opinion on the matter will also be developed. The social Network that I will more develop is Facebook, not only because Facebook is the current website which is the most successful, but also because I'm one of its users and fan. [...]

[...] In my mind the Chinese government wants to imprisoned Chinese people in their country and therefore can't be open to the world and discover things from other country. For me the government is convinced that these types of websites can only create harm to their country. Perhaps because the Chinese could rebel against their policies, but I think that if a rebellion was to take place, this would not be using these sites, other means are possible. In my mind, this Internet barring is an invasion of privacy and right. [...]