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Social networking: increasing websites dedicated to meeting people

Whether to link, do business or share hobbies, there are dozens of websites dedicated to creating and managing social networks where friends invite and meet the 'friends' friends', or those communities of common interests. They have staunch supporters competing to be the most popular in each network, but also with critics who question its usefulness and that they consider pose a worrying threat to privacy. The little-known but growing social software is a concept that encompasses profiling yet from the CC of the email address (which can send to multiple people) to chat or wikis (virtual environments for shared work), ie , applications that involve some form of human collaboration. Among these tools are social networks, the last boom and paste Internet strongly in Spain.

You can find more than one hundred web sites that seek to form social networks to find old or new friends, do business, find work or directly linked. Friendster, Tribe, Rize and LinkedIn are good examples of the great impact of online social networks, which have undergone a further boost with the advent of Orkut, backed by Google. It involves using the scope of the Network to expand the circle of contacts and share interests of whatever nature, with a large number of people without any physical limitations. If the blogs have created a universe on the Web where Internet users (blogger), publishes his personal diary or 'world view', social networks can foster closer ties unknown and dispersed, creating a space for sharing knowledge. Said a university professor, lecturer and consultant eComunicación believes that "the Net is people and what people do with it." Further explains that "social networks based on Internet, to the extent that improve their performance, help to reformulate the concept and effectiveness of the Network." These improvements can be reached by combining the potential of 'social software' with the content syndication through RSS (which allows access to the contents of a multitude of ways), "which is one of the most interesting and promising prospects for turn the Web into a system of shared knowledge and not just a data warehouse, "said

However, this 'fashion' in expansion of features currently only made available to web users a series of tools to facilitate the creation and maintenance of new contacts, without a purpose clearly visible to members. They are, as explained in Caspa.tv, "a virtual pub has suddenly become fashionable because it's all cool Internet people" and "aimed not even know the creator." The fact is that, in addition to finding a good reception from the Internet, being the darling of investors, it seems that soon expanded and improved performance. In addition, it is obvious that no one is compelled to belong to a social network, "one more thing to attend to", and its existence can only be positive: "Each of us can decide what we like best and are best suited to our tastes and interests, and that can only be good, "says Fernando in Reflections and thoughtlessness.

Different types of social networks

The germ software social networking part of the theory of six degrees of separation, according to which all people of the planet is connected by no more than six people. In fact, there is a U.S. patent known as six degrees patent for which he paid Tribe and LinkedIn. There are many other patents covering the technology to automate the creation of networks and applications related to them. To become part of social networking users must register, usually for free, and then complete a series of forms with your personal data, photo, hobbies, etc.. Usually enough to create a basic profile, and thereafter members can provide all information about themselves they wish to increase the chances of finding matches.

Once registered, the user focuses on the task of expanding their social networks invite 'friends'. To do this, these sites offer a range of applications, filtered searches, messaging, forums, communities, chats, etc. Some are clearly targeted, such as finding a mate or fellow students, or share music and photos. Others leave in the hands of users in order to be part of networks: making friends, find business partners or money, find jobs, buy or sell, look for apartments or whatever comes to mind. Therefore, in terms of the relationship, there since the move is only interested in 'link', like match.com or meetic, even those who seek to foster professional relationships, as eConozco, and as benefits, which are based on the initiative of the user ("you are my friend, you do not") and more analytical, such as Spoke, with software able to organize their own email contacts.

According to The professor, IT tools to enhance the effectiveness of online social networks ('social software'), operating in three areas, the "3Cs" of cross:

* Communication (help us share knowledge), such as Community Blogs, Educ.ar Weblog, The Weblog Portal Solidario or Exiles.
* Community (help us find and integrate communities), such as Friendster, LinkedIn, Ryze, Tribe, Spoke, or Orkut.
* Cooperation (help us do things together) as Bloggers Parliament, Bridges.org, NetAid, Wikipedia or Motivados.org.

In The social software weblog 120 websites have been grouped into 10 categories and QuickBase has also developed a complete picture on social networking.

Dating and meeting online sites: Are they useful?

To give a resounding answer to this question still needed to leave some time. What is certain is that the 'e-network' grow apace thanks to the 'word of mouth' (email to email) as most people are inclined to accept the invitations. Tickle (formerly Emode.com) claims to have over 18 million active members, Friendster, and Spoke exceed 5 million and Orkut, in just over four months, and has stuck to 370,000 users (more than 5,000 in Spain) that grow at 400 per hour, and has trained nearly 100,000 communities. The membership is a positive outcome for a social network, while the large number of networks becomes more complicated match online with friends.

"We can think of a social network like one big party: we are reunited with old friends and former lovers, meet new people, exchange cards and phones to meet again, do business or simply as part of the ritual. We can have fun trying to make friends love or business, or bored because we do not like parties because we prefer going out with friends. All this is what also happens in an online social network, "said. As an example mentioned eCuaderno.com community has launched in Orkut to "put a face to readers of my weblog, where we use the forum for everyone to describe your own blog and propose topics to discuss in eCuaderno." What should be clear is that social relationships online, "except in cases of pathological use, do not replace personal relationships," says. But yes that enhance their reach, such as the dynamics FOAF (friend-of-a-friend), which are more readily accessible in the real world. " In addition, "online communities are strengthened, and develop a strong identity to the extent that members have the opportunity to meet face-to-face," fostered a growing trend on sites like Meetup.com.

Internet expert s, even questioned its necessity, "especially in European societies in which people are linked to many social networks interconnected virtual" . They believe that the development of society will eventually Red "create new networks through shared interests (distribution lists, websites, newsletters, 'are', IRC channels ...) that will make this type of software is unnecessary," because "the end of the function is to automate and accelerate the process of finding like-minded people on the Net." Moreover, according to Cervera, these programs are technically comparable to the Semantic Web, "in the sense that they rely too heavily on the self of the participants, causing a distorting effect (there is detailed analysis of why the Semantic Web will not work for this plea). " For the journalist, social software same thing happens: "There are all wonderful." Orihuela also uses this concept to the opposite conclusion: "the social construction of knowledge is by providing semantic value to information, filtering it through networks of trust, that is, what is relevant to people who are part of my network in the field of 'web design' is more important to me that what Google considers to be relevant when I search for 'web design'. " Moreover, "if I am part of your network, even if you do not know any expert on 'web design' can take advantage of shared knowledge of my 'friends', that is for you 'friends-of-friend'.

If there is someone who is very involved this subject this is Mrc Caner, No. 1 in the rankings of Orkut (547 'friends') and Lock (444), with a weblog and developing a social network based on open source PeopleAggregator.com called FOAF. Caner insists that social networks are about connecting person to person, "the software has nothing to do with people." "It's a common mistake to think of social networks as a market. The Web is not a market and so do online communities, is something we all use markets." With its curriculum to ensure it is not surprising that use these networks to "all", from maintaining contact with family and look for children to play with their children, to organize meetings and attract investment for their business. "If they are useful? Helpful people?" Asks Caner: "Wherever there are people form social networks online, and soon we will see grow in portals, corporate intranets, religious sites ... in any place where people want to contact each other. "

Among the hundreds of articles questioning the usefulness of social networks, errant.org wields they are "online gaming" simulations for the fun of specific audiences. Teledyne asserts, for its part, will not work because in reality "are not social networks, they do not have a reason to be social. To Reorient social software should emerge in the blogosphere (the collection of blogs, or personal diaries) through an application FOAF ("friend of a friend ') added to the blogs, and lists what should be improved: useful content for users , greater restrictions on access to add value (as does Linkedin), communication-through the integration of VoIP (Internet calling) and instant messaging, "community beyond the 'friends of friends' and Privacy.

The privacy and other issues for online friends sites

The now frequent criticism of the social networking focus, regardless of their need / utility in the clear improvement in functionality, in its threat to privacy and their massive proliferation, which can become a great nuisance. A  co-editor of the influential weblog BoingBoing, the constant request to accept friends or strangers and write testimonials he is "crazy." "I have systems in the real world to know who my friends ... and I have this amazing way for people to contact me: email," says, who has placed a filter to send messages from social networks in the trash. His initial curiosity has turned into disappointment to see that these systems are not really good tools: "It is ironic that the software to automate processes is worsening social interactions," because "people who do not know tries to develop friendships easily and fast .

The resistance movement against the 'harassment' of social networking has its maximum expression in Introverster and satirical, a website dedicated to antisocial form a community that helps to make new friends and avoid "no one bothers you when you're online." However, the backlash against social networks appears to be limited at the moment, those with a large presence online, while the vast majority of users can use them as a simple alternative to the personal page or weblog to have an identity Network What is certain is that many users have shown their disdain for online social networks after they join, such as Danah Bod makes a comment which also contains a good collection of articles on the subject. The reasons are varied:

* The elite formula for the invitation to belong to any of these networks, which limits their spontaneous generation is left to the rules of the creators.
* The total artificiality and frivolity to define the relationships, starting with 'friend' or 'not-friend' with no average, continuing the limited and decontextualized system to classify friends and ending the practice of self-identified as abnormal 'fan' of one's friends, which creates confusion and unfairness.
* The hierarchy in the lists of friends and communities, the result of "downers."
* The unnatural growth of networks, based on grouping a lot of contacts quickly without knowing what to do with them then.

Finally, the widespread criticism affects how these services collect personal information and how to use it. It takes a lot of data that fall into strange hands, and in many cases, you must accept conditions that let the user fully exposed and helpless. They also recognize that one of the strongest criticism he has received Orkut is that related to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, "that deprive users of some of their most basic rights." "Users of the Internet, in general, and social software tools, in particular, should know very well manage the information they disclose about themselves (pictures, contact details, email accounts, identity services instant messaging, personal preferences, sexual orientation, ideology, and secondments), because of privacy and intimacy, when a government makes, going from personal to social space, and from there to market, "he warns.