Articule about the advantages and disadvantages of social networks

Social networking sites are a part of everyday life and they have brought revolutionary changes in communication between people. These sites provide different resources such as email and instant messages in one place. Availability of these resources makes the communication easy and faster. When we look at the social impact of social networking sites, we find that these sites have both positive and negative effects. Because of this fact, it is necessary to analyze both advantage and drawbacks of social networking sites.

Undoubtedly, social networking sites are advantageous to young generation. With the help of these sites, people can communicate and express themselves by exchanging messages and comments. Social networking sites help in establishing connection with people, friends and relatives. These sites can be accessed from any part of the globe. Therefore, a person can interact with any person from any place. For example a student can clear his doubts with the help of a teacher. People having different professions can make groups like doctors, lawyers, students, poets, writers, social workers etc.      

The most common disadvantage of social networking sites is addiction. Often users of these sites get addicted to it. They spend hours using these sites and it harms their performance in other fields. It causes mental health problems and sometimes it harms their body too. Sometimes users provide their personal information to others which is insecure.

We can see clearly that social networking sites are advantageous only if they are used wisely. Using these sites would be helpful, if users do not spend time there unnecessarily. Wise members never provide personal information to strangers. Use of a tool depends on users. A doctor can operate with a knife and a murderer can kill a person with the same knife.

From: http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/social-networking-sites-advantages-and-disadvantages

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GRUNGES: This urban tribe was born in Seattle in the 90s and they are very interested in music and refuse the consumist society and people without personality. They hear music from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth...

They have a dirty look and they wear stripped and coloured T-shirts or "scottish" shirts, ripped jeans and coloured shoes

GOTHICS: This urban tribe was born in the 80s from punk. They are sometimes in specifics bars. They are apolitics and they admire everything about death and the occultism. They look like a violent tribe but they're peaceful. They hear music from "Bella Morte" or "Black Ice".

They wear black clothes of leather, spiked accessories and religious elements for example crosses or five-spiked stars.

HEAVIES: This urban tribe was born in England in the 70s from rockers with hippies ideology. It is one of the most diffused urban tribe, especially in popular classes. Heavies like to do weekend outings, hear music from Heavy metal bands, go to gigs and sometimes smoke cannabis. They're antimilitarist and antiauthoritarian. Hardly ever, they're violent but they can be violent by musical excitement or alcohol and cannabis.

They have a long hair and they wear jeans, spiked leather jacket and black T-shirt from their favorite music bands.

HIPPIES: This urban tribe was born in the 60's with Vietnam war. They like to take drugs. They proclaim the peace and love. They don't like the policy and they have anarquists ideas.

They have long hair and use colorful clothes.

PUNK: This urban tribe was born in the 70s in opossition of the culture decadence. Now, there aren't many punks but they're very radical. In bars, sometimes they be mixed with heavies and skinheads. They have an ideology anarchist, okupa, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist. They're very violent and their enemies are: Neo-Nazis, Posh and fascists. They hear punk music.

They have big and colorful crests and a lot of piercings and tatoos. They wear spiked leather jacket, black T-shirts with a social slogan or simbols(anarchy, comunist...

Social Networks

Some examples are:

   Instagram is a program or photo-sharing application with which users can apply photo effects and filters, frames, retro and vintage colors, then can share photos on social networking sites like Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and Twitter.

The network can send plain text messages short length, with a maximum of 140 characters, called tweets, which are displayed in the user's home page. Users can subscribe to other users' tweets - this is called "follow" users and subscribers are called "followers"( TWITTER)
                                                    

A social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin founded by Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Originally a site for students at Harvard University, but it opened to anyone with an email account. It is a network that allows shared photos, videos, files and more with your friends.(FACEBOOK)
                                                       

 A social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is based in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million visitors in EEUU.Tiene features such as facebook and twitter.(MYSPACE)                    

Is an application dedicated to sending photos and messages to "destroy" at 10 seconds maximum. You can specify the time duration of the message, which can be between 1 and 10 seconds.(SNAPCHAT)
                                          

Is a network in which we can see from videos to music videos aprender.esta network to study and sharing videos with all your friends on this network or other like facebook.(YOUTUBE)
                                                        

                                               

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

Urban Tribes

First of all we would like to introduce you, all of our readers to one of the topics we are going to talk about in this blog. Urban Tribes. What is it? How many of them exist? When? Why?. Well all of this is here in this article:

"Urban tribes are groups of people in urban areas who have some kind of close association based upon similar lifestyles or activities" "Urban tribes are young city people that gather in relatively small, fluid groups. These groups share common interests that are, in general, different from the interests of mainstream culture". (Michel Maffesoli)  They are made up by groups of people – usually young, with a distinct common identity: the same aesthetic codes, the same identity symbols, the same rules, the same language, the same music. A whole ideology! They are a reflection of what they love or what they hate and of their own instincts. We can find them in any Spanish city, but they are usually concentrated in the big cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Seville. SOME URBAN TRIBES Ñetas y Latin Kins          Pijos              Ocupas              Pelolais o Barbies          Mods         Emos        Heavies         Rastas         Hardcores         Góticos         Grunges        Skaters         Rockers Raperos      Wannabes     Lolailos          Frikis           Canis            Bakalaeros Some of them are nearly extinct, and others in full expansion. It is estimated that in Madrid alone coexist more than fifteen tribes. They usually meet in central, commercial or nightlife areas. Sometimes people associate urban tribes with violence. In fact, there are some of them which are linked to incidents, brutal attacks and social problems; but many of them are inoffensive. Do you know What ? Urban tribes are not new, but a very fashionable tendency. In fact, they date back hundreds years: concretely to the 18th century in Madrid: There are some references identifying them in paintings by Goya or Atienza !