Social networks - a great way to get acquainted with new people, to learn the latest news and to have a good time behind a new game. Their variety sometimes frightens, and many do not see a difference between the most popular social services at all... What to select to the person who decided to begin the socialization on the Internet?
Social networks: the quantity does not speak about a variety
Today the number of different social services for information exchange and media content just reads off scale: meet the person who would not be a user of at least one social application or had no questionnaire at least on one of popular social networks, it is almost impossible.
Overwhelming part of social networks have identical structure and serve the same purposes: people communicate, photos, videos and also actively use the system of ""likes"" (like - positive reviews) and dislikes (dislike - negative reviews).
In fact seldom any given new social network has some difference from the primogenitors and offers the users something considerably unique.
In addition to classical networks ""for the people"", there are about three dozen popular websites for the people connected by common interests today. So, special social networks for programmers or artists are popular.
Why some people prefer facebook, and others - vkontakte? Why someone uses only "Skype"" (skype - the multifunction program service for commission of calls online), and someone prefers the good old ICQ manager?
The thing is that the specific social network can answer requests and preferences of a certain individual. In this context most often mean design, the interface and other features which it is possible to call ""not explicit"" by ""preferences"".
For example, several automated researches showed that the contingent of users of Facebook and "одноклассники.ру"" is on average 7 years more senior than the contingent of the website vkontakte.ru.
Social networks and need of their use
How the Internet and means of exchanging information develops, private data of many people become more likely the general property of the whole world, than remain that ""personal record"" of everyone.
Interesting fact: with growth of number of users social networks also the number of people who decide to refuse any social services or the publication of personal data in network grows.
Some people of an event, connected with data security issues of Internet users (the data published by Edward Snowden that the CIA spies on the citizens or numerous materials of the WikiLeaks website), also push to select only one specific online tool meeting the purposes and user requirements: Skype, ICQ managers, e-mail and other highly specialized ""software"" which use is possible without publication of the original data.