This document discusses social networks, including what they are, who uses them, popular networks like WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as well as advantages and disadvantages. It notes that social networks allow people to connect with friends virtually and share content. The most popular networks are used mainly by young people for entertainment. There are different types of social networks including horizontal networks for all users, vertical networks for specific audiences, professional networks, and networks for leisure, universities, news, blogging, microblogging, and sharing content.

1. Social Networks

2. Index:
● What they are
● What are they for
● who use them
● Most popular social networks
● Advantages
● Disadvantages
● Types of Social Networks

3. What are they
● A social network is a social structure
made up of a set of social actors (such
as individuals or organizations), sets
of dyadic ties, and other social
interactions between actors.

4. What are they for
● allow people to connect with their friends
and even make new friendships, virtually,
and share content, interact, create
communities on similar interests: work,
readings, games, friendship, love
relationships, business relationships, etc.

5. Who use them
● 96% of young people use the internet, most of
them daily, and 83% use social networks.
● Mainly to entertain and train, although to opt for
television, followed "very closely" by Internet.

6. Most popular social
networks:Whattsapp
● is an instant messaging application for
smartphones, which sends and receives
messages through the Internet,
complementing email services, instant
messaging, short message service or
multimedia messaging system.

7. Instagram
● Instagram is a social network and application to
upload photos and videos. Its users can also
apply photographic effects such as filters,
frames, thermal similarities, underlying areas in
the concave bases, retro colors, and then share
the photographs in the same social network or in
others such as Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and
Twitter.

8. Twitter
● an English term that can be translated as
"chirping" or "chirping" is the name of a
microblogging network that allows you to
write and read messages on the Internet that
do not exceed 140 characters. ... This
message can also be seen immediately in the
user's profile.

9. Facebook
● is a social network created by Mark Zuckerberg
while studying at Harvard University. Its
objective was to design a space in which the
students of said university could exchange
fluent communication and share content easily
through the Internet.

10. Youtube
● is an Internet portal that allows its
users to upload and view videos. It
was created in February 2005 by
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed
Karim, who met while working on
PayPal.

11. disadvantages
● They lose the interaction with their social
environment and their family.
● They can become victims of cyberbullying and identity
theft.
● They are exposed to people who often do not know,
publishing personal information.
● They become victims of damaged viruses and
software.

12. Advantages
● Generates greater communication and interaction
among young people.
● They are better informed.
● They overcome shyness through social networks.
● It facilitates the relationship between people without
cultural and physical barriers.

13. Types of Social Networks
● There are ten types of Social
Networks:
● Horizontal social networks:
They are social networks that were not created for any
type of specific user, but in them all kinds of individuals
interact, which, yes, can create their own communities.

14. Types of social networks
● Vertical social networks:
Are those that do address a specific audience.
They are known as specialized social networks.

15. Types of social networks
● Professional social networks
They are a type of vertical social network, in
which the participants are professionals who
interact with work objectives.

16. Types of social networks
● Social networks of leisure
The theme of this type of vertical
social network revolves around
different tamas: sports, music,
videogames ...

17. Types of social networks
● Vertical mixed social networks
They combine both professional and
leisure themes, therefore, they are
less formal.

18. Types of social networks
● University social networks
They are intended for the university
public. In them, students can chat,
get to know each other and, at the
same time, download notes.

19. Types of social networks
● Social news
they allow people to post several news or
links to external articles and then allow
users to "vote" on these articles. The
items that get the most votes are the
most prominent.

20. Types of social networks
● Blogging
They are social media in which
opinions, stories, articles and links to
other websites are recorded from a
personal site.

21. Types of Social networks
● Microblogging
These social networks are characterized by the
publication of very short entries or updates
that allow for the transfer of interaction and
for individuals to interact.

22. Types of Social Networks
● Shared content
they allow to load and to share
several contents, like images or
video.