Social networks

Fragility of our privacy Sometimes inadvertently we share intimate or highly personal information with thousands of strangers.

Create addiction Many people are hooked on Instagram and Tik Tok. The new generations need to carry the cell phone everywhere because they have to constantly enter their profiles on the different social networks.

Young people mainly They lose interaction with their social environment and family. They can become victims of cyberbullying and phishing.

Speed of information We learned about the most important news of the day. Information is shown to us on our home page constantly shared by contacts or friends.

Ease of contact You have contact with old friends or classmates or old jobs that, otherwise, we would not have found in the vastness of the network.

Self-promotion capacity Promotion of your own company on networks such as Instagram or YouTube, or the ease of finding a job. It is becoming more and more common for social networks to be oriented towards professional objectives.

1) In sociology, the concept of social network is used to analyze interactions between individuals, groups, organizations or even entire societies since the end of the 19th century.

2) The 3 social networks with the most users are:
 
 -Facebook with more than&#160; 1,170 M users
 -YouTube with 1,000 M users
 -WhatsApp with 600 M users

An estimated three and a half billion searches are carried out on Google every day, and the most amazing thing about it is that between 16 and 20% of them are original, that is, they have never been done before.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

For the kids: They have the opportunity to become true content producers. It allows them to express themselves with their own voice, they can learn about the world and be entertained.

For older adults: Although learning something new can often be challenging, some benefits of social media use in older people include improved cognitive abilities, decreased feelings of loneliness, and obviously a source of entertainment.

For teenagers The Internet has been shown to stimulate a greater number of brain regions and increase working memory.

Not everything in social networks is very good and not everything is so bad, for that reason, the positive and negative aspects of social networks are presented below.

Banning access to social media is a bad idea, especially for teens. Children must learn the habits of good Internet use through their parents, with their lessons and instructions, so that they become an example to follow. Only in this way will we contribute to responsible use of the networks by our children.

That parents know and learn how social networks work, what they are for and what new technologies are associated with them. Only in this way will they be able to educate their children in the correct way, to help them choose the appropriate options, and thus prevent them from accessing pages or content that are inappropriate or malicious for them.

Have rules for the use of social networks appropriate for children according to their age (hours, time of use, content).