SOCIAL+NETWORK+INFO,+FACTS+AND+TIPS

= **//LINKED IN... THE WORLDS MOST USED, MOST FAMOUS PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SITE! - Maya 18 2011 -//** = = = = Linked in is a social networking site for business people and company's. It has more than 100 million users and it beats its competitors XING (10 million) and Viadeo (30 million). It was launched May 5 2003 Santa Monica, California. Its slogan is "Relationships Matter". Linked in was created by various people but mostly Reid Hoffman. 1000 employes since 2010. =

=**Internet safety- Photos Securi****ty- Vera 16 May 2011**=

Facebook is a social network in which you can share things such as: Videos, Information, Photos and others, Like everything, posting photos in facebook it's a little bit dangerous. WHY? Because once you put it in FB the copright automatically transforms, like FACEBOOK PROPERTY. They can do whatever they want with your photo, even if you put it in the "**ONLY FRIENDS**" status. That is why you need to be careful and never put photos that gives information to the person that is seeing it, Here are some tips: And always remember that facebook at any moment, any place, can do everything with your photo! Do a commercials, advertisement, ANYTHING!!
 * Choose photographs that doesn't show the address of your house or school
 * In the comments don't say anything about your number or address
 * Ask yourself : "Is this what I want everybody to see?"


 * Practical Tips - Maya - 16 May 2011 **


 * If you are using a social network for work reasons stop every 30 minutes and look around you walk or just take a tiny break
 * If you are using your blackberry stop every 15 minutes and do things like open and close your hands and strech your fingers and thumbs (OR JUST STOP USING IT)
 * Try not to take your blackberry to school, movies, parties or church services to not even think about your smart phone and ENJOY THE MOMENT!!!

** A bad reason of having the same name in FACEBOOK -Vera 16/05/2011 **

Having the same name in Facebook is a big mistake, especially when a person pretends that is a famous person, EXAMPLE: Hi I'm the real Miley Cyrus! add me;) <<<<<<<<< FALSE In fact these causes lot of problems because if a person sees this it can be the case that believes it, and nobody knows what are the purposes of people. IT CAN BE BAD OR GOOD? Well, THIS MEANS THAT IN THE INTERNET NO ONE KNOWS IF IT'S THE REAL PERSON YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO HIM/HER

What do you think?

= Interesting facts- Valeria- 11 may 2011 =

=**Facebook** = 1. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. 2. More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) is shared each month. 3. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application. 4. More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month. 5. Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook. 6. There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. 7. People that access Facebook via mobile are twice as active than non-mobile users (think about that when designing your Facebook page). 8. The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events. 9. People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook. 10. There are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook. //Statistics from Facebook press office.//

**Twitter** 11. Twitter’s web platform only accounts for a quarter of its users – 75% use third-party apps. 12. Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day. 13. There are currently 110 million users of Twitter’s services. 14. Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month. 15. There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day. 16. Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service. 17. Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S. 18. There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. 19. Twitter has donated access to all of its tweets to the Library of Congress for research and preservation. 20. More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone. //Statistics from Twitter and the// [|__Chirp Conference__] //.////.//

**YouTube** 31. The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo”, on 23rd April 2005. 32. By June 2006, more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day. 33. YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day. 34. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. 35. The U.S. accounts for 70% of YouTube users. 36. Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old. 37. You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. 38. YouTube is available in 19 countries and 12 languages. 39. Music videos account for 20% of uploads. 40. YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000. //Statistics from YouTube press centre.//

**Blogging** 41. 77% of Internet users read blogs. 42. There are currently 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati. 43. 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44. 44. One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. 45. Two thirds of bloggers are male. 46. Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs. 47. 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging. 48. More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents. 49. More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. 50. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. //Statistics from Technorati’s// [|__//State of the Blogosphere 2009//__] //.//

**Bonus Facts** 51. 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. 52. The average social user has 195 friends. //Statistics from// [|__//Online Media Gazette//__] //.//

= = = Little kids social networks - Valeria - 11 may 2011- =

most of the famous social networks are for 13 - up, or with your parents permision, but theres many kids how just cheat on that just by simply adjusting their birthday, and the webpages cant do anything because how will they know. A big solution to these is that kids enter their own social networks, which are made up for them and they can only be entered with an adult permision, so the adult may manage the time they spend on it. here's the list of some of them,
 * __**[|Togetherville] **__
 *  What’s What
 * **__ScuttlePad __**
 * **__giantHello __**
 * **Skid-e Kids**

= - HI5 - Valeria - 11 may 2011 - =

hi5 is a social network created with Ramu Yalamanchi and was launched 2003. it's number of users has increased a lot finalizing 2007 it had 70 million users, and had become one of the 40 websites more visited wordwide. it purpose its to allow users to create their own profiles with avatar,make friends, upload you tube videos, play games, flirt, give gift or just hang out its link is, [|www.hi5.com]

**//THE FIRST SOCIAL NETWORK!!!!!! - Maya - 11 May 2011-//**

The first real social network site was Sixdegrees.com. It allowed people to create profiles, list their friends and since 1998, surf the friend list. It was created in 1997. It lasted until 2000 and was created by Andrew Winrich. it was named after the 6 degrees of separation concept. Many people say that without sixdegrees.com many social networks like facebook or myspace or twitter wouldn't be the way they are now. T he site had around 1,000,000 fully-registered members.


 * // -SOCIAL NETWORK FACTS- Maya - 11 May 2011 - //**

Popular Social Network Users-

FACEBOOK- 600 million and up

TWITTER- 200 million and up

MYSPACE- 34 million and up

YOU TUBE- 490 million and up