Social networks are virtual environments for communication, interaction and the sharing of sources.
HORIZONTAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
FACEBOOK: this is a bidirectional social network. People can publish private and public messages with text, links, news, photos, and videos. Normally in this app, everyone share information about their feelings, opinions or what are they doing.
TWITTER: here, users publish tweets (short text messages) with no more than 140 characters, whis is called microblogging. The relation ships beetwen users can be bidirectional or not.
A famous function is using hastags to
follow interesting events or topics.
GOOGLE+: this social network allows users to create circles of friends in order to share information, photos, videos...from public or private communities.
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| Pleople use this instant message application to connect with each other for audio conversations and videoconferences |
VERTICAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
The users of vertical networks form communities who have similar reasons for using this application. These reasons may include:
*Sharing proffesional information.
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| LinkedIn is the most popular network for all of professionals. *Sharing general information. |
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| With FriendFeed, people can create private groups to share information. |
*Sharing photos.
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| Instagram, Pinterest and Flickr are popular |
*Sharing videos.
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| Vimeo and YouTube are common examples. |
*Live streaming: live streaming is a technique for sharing very large audio and video files. After part of the file is downloaded into a temporary storage system, you can start to listen or watch that part, so you don't need to wait for the entire file to download.
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| Skype, Twitch.tv... are often used |
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