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 * CHANGE: How are social networks evolving? How is social network addiction changing? How does the change of technology affect social network addiction and social networks?**

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Social networks are constantly changing, and every day there becaming more popular. Social networking sites have changed the way we communicated with each other and replaced traditional forms such as writing a letter, phoning a friend or even paying a lot of money into a long distance call. Since the present social networks had evolved a lot since the first social networking site which was called six degress to now day one of the most famous site Facebook. Futhermore the social networks are not the only ones that are changing also the ways you can conect to them, in the pasy the only way was at the computer, or not using the network at all, now you can have these anywhere at anytime with your blackberry or smartphone.

** A NEW WAY OF LIFE - Vera 1 June 2011 - Investigation- **
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Social networks is currently one of the most popular ways to connect with people and interact with them. Everytime these social networks are evolving more and they are becoming stronger, words and phrases like "friend request", "unlike" a "tweet" have become an acceptable part of our daily vocabulary. The sharing of news, pictures, gossips and stories among friends, have increased each time more. The definition of "friend" has become anyone you know, or even anyone with whom you've at least had a brief conversation. Twenty years ago, if people wanted to invite someone to a party, they mailed an invitation, if they wanted to share pictures with friends, they just print them and put them in an album, scrapbook or something else. If they wanted to quickly ask someone a question or tell them some news, they gave them a call or leave them a memo. Today you can do all of this things from a Facebook account. Since anyone knows you have an account on it, you can keep in touch with everyone you want. No matter where they live or how often you see them. You don't need to know their phone number, email address, physical address or screen name, you just add them as a FRIEND! You can write messages, send photos, play online games, you can have apps, see and send videos, read what your friends have posted in their wall, chat and blog.

//**The Evolution Of Social Networks - Maya May 24 - Investigation -**// Web page link - http://www.sociableblog.com/2009/05/20/evolution-of-social-networking-sites/ and myspace.com The evolution of social networking sites is really important for change. Before social networks did not even existed and when they were developing you could not do as many things as you can now. The first social networks were blogs, (the whole origin of social networks were e-mails and blogs) but the first social network that allowed you to chat, put pictures up, etc. was sixdegrees.com. You could have "friends", write small posts, chat and put pictures up. It was created in 1997 and shut down in 2001 because all of their users were going to the new social networks such as friendster. Freindster got more popular, but it became even more popular when myspace was released. Social networks were starting to get more popular so people were creating accounts on every social network. MySpace allowed you to do many more things than other networks and it started to get more popular than the others until it even was the most used social network in the whole world until facebook came in. The big idea that attracted everyone to facebook was that you could put absolutely every single thing about yourself and control who could see it. Since then tons more were created, but with time they started to have different, more specified uses. For example youtube is used to share videos, twitter to know what is happening, etc. Also some social networks were created specially for kids, so they are more colourful, safer, have more games, are easier to navigate, etc. Social networks like gianthello or togetherville. Not just that but before blogging has all about writing about yourself, how are you feeling, what did you do today, why, etc. but with time they started to be made with specific topics and as that happened blogging got more famous.

New comunication oportunities- valeria- may 20 2011

Wireless comunication has become one of the more used comunication ways in the lately. every year it increases a lot the number of user at a network, but not only that, people are starting to use the network everywhere with a smart phone. Furthermore the social networking sites had change a lot since the first social network ever which was called six degrees which went from 1997 to 2001 when it was shot down because of the less amount of users they had. These sites had changed the ways of communication between the past and present, in the past people used to write letters, phone people or send telegrams, now days if you need to talk or send a message to someone you just have to text it.

//** Social Networks - Anytime, Anywhere! Maya - 11 May 2011 - Prior knowledge **// Before the only way of being on the internet was if you were at home in your computer. Later on there were phones that could do that but it was terribly expensive and difficult to use. Eventually more smart phones were created and got lighter and had more gadgets and 3g Internet and now there are many smart phones such as Blackberry's, iPhones, etc. that allow you to go on any social network anywhere at anytime. There are even applications that allow you to navigate social networks quicker and easier.

PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE? VERA 16/05/2011

With the pass of time technologies improve more and more! For example, in past people used to have a big t.v in black and white, while know in present they have colors, some of them have the ability of the 3D and they have wi-fi connection. Telephones where really old and difficult to use, you couldn't take them with you to everywhere you wanted, but thanks to the new technologies, now exist cellphones like BLACKBERRIES, they have access to the internet and other applications. Old people, like grandparents (other generation) where used to live without light, because they needed to use candels, they couldn't use internet and other things, and for them the new technologies that with time start appearing, where very WOOOOOW!! but right now the kids that born in this century, for them this new and exciting technologies, will be normal and if for example in the future will appear a catastrophic moment and there will be NO TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET, that new generation probably can extin, because of the uses.

However the question is, if technologies had change alot between these years, how would it be in future?