SOCIAL NETWORKING

 Hi everyone.. I am Prapti and today i will be telling you about the most attractive topic that is social networking.

WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORK ?

Social network is a social structure made up of social actors (individuals or organisations ), sets of dyadic ties and other social interaction between those characters.

The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.

Some popular social networking sites are facebook , whatsapp , instagram , twitter.

HISTORY 

In the late 1890s, both Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies foreshadowed the idea of social networks in their theories and research of social groups. Tönnies argued that social groups can exist as personal and direct social ties that either link individuals who share values and belief or impersonal, formal, and instrumental social links. Durkheim gave a non-individualistic explanation of social facts, arguing that social phenomena arise when interacting individuals constitute a reality that can no longer be accounted for in terms of the properties of individual actors. Georg Simmel, writing at the turn of the twentieth century, pointed to the nature of networks and the effect of network size on interaction and examined the likelihood of interaction in loosely knit networks rather than groups.

By the 1970s, a growing number of scholars worked to combine the different tracks and traditions. One group consisted of sociologist Harrison White and his students at the Harvard University Department of Social Relations. Also independently active in the Harvard Social Relations department at the time were Charles Tilly, who focused on networks in political and community sociology and social movements, and Stanley Milgram, who developed the "six degrees of separation" thesis. Mark Granovetter and Barry Wellman are among the former students of White who elaborated and championed the analysis of social networks.
Beginning in the late 1990s, social network analysis experienced work by sociologists, political scientists, and physicists such as Duncan J. Watts, Albert-László Barabási, Peter Bearman, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, and others, developing and applying new models and methods to emerging data available about online social networks, as well as "digital traces" regarding face-to-face networks.

   

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PROS AND CONS 

FIRST LETS SEE THE ADVANTAGES :

 Social networking gives you a chance to connect with people around the world.

This technology gives us access to easy, instant communication tools.

Information happens in real-time blocks on social networks.

 Social networking creates brand exposure for businesses.

 This tool can help students perform better at school.

Social networking helps people who are shy or socially isolated to connect with others.

NOW WHAT ARE THE DISADVANTAGES:

Social networking exposes us to a lot of information.

There are privacy issues to consider with social networks.

 Cyberbullying and peer pressure are significant issues.

 Some people substitute online interactions for their offline relationships.

Social networking can become a severe distraction for some people.

It can disrupt your sleep cycle.

 Using social networking all of the time can lead to a sedentary lifestyle.

Social networking can spread false or unreliable information quickly.

Now I would like to conclude that although there are many advantages of social media and social networking we as children should remain a little away from it and avoid this at this age. You may harm or cause problem in your true relationships with your friends and family for the unknown relationships you are having on social media.

 HAVE A NICE DAY AHEAD 🙂🙂