The Social Networks

While for many social networks can become a modern service with little experience on the web, because the biggest explosion by the fury of them arose in recent years achieving a true mass in its use, the truth is that its origin dates back more than a decade

After all these years, social interaction networks have become one of the most widespread elements of the Internet, offering their users a common place to develop constant communications.

This is possible because users can not only use the service through their personal computer, but also in recent times can participate in these types of communities through a variety of mobile devices, such as cell phones or laptops, something that is marking the new trend in communication

Next we will see a small historical review of the social networks:

1971: The first mail is sent. The two main computers of the shipment were side by side.

1978: BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) are exchanged through telephone lines with other users.

1978: The first copies of internet browsers are distributed through the Usenet platform.

1994: GeoCities is founded, one of the first social networks of internet as we know them today. The idea was 

1995:Theglobe.com gives its users the ability  to personalize  their own online experiences 

by publishing their own content and interacting  with others with  similar interests

1997: AOL Instant Messenger is launched

1997: TheSixdegrees.com website is opened, which allows the creation of personal

profiles and the list of friends.

2000: The "Internet bubble" explodes

2002: The Friendster portal is launched, a pioneer in the online connection of "real friends". Reaches 3 million users in just three months

2003: The MySpace website is inaugurated, originally conceived as a "clone" of Friendster

.Created by an online marketing company, its first version was coded in just 10 days..

2004: Se lanza Facebook, concebida originalmente como una plataforma para conectar a estudiantes

universitarios. Su pistoletazo de salida tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Harvard y más de la mitad 

de sus 19.500 estudiantes se suscribieron a ella durante su primer mes de funcionamiento

2006: Twitter microblogging network opens

2008: Facebook advances MySpace as the leading social network in terms of unique monthly
visitors

2011: Facebook has 600 million users spread around the world, MySpace 260 million, Twitter 190 million and Friendster just 90 million.
The concepts of social networks are not new, and many of the components of initial Facebook had originally been introduced by others. Zuckerberg has been accused several times of stealing ideas to create Facebook, but, in fact, his service is the heir of ideas that have been developed over forty years.

Something like futbol  was conceived by the engineers who laid the foundations of the Internet. In 1968, in an essay, they were already asking themselves: "What will interactive Internet communities be like? In most fields they will consist of a series of geographically separated members, sometimes grouped into small nuclei and sometimes working individually. They will be communities without the same location, but with a common interest ".The article delved more into the concept of social network when he said: "You will not send a letter or a telegram, you will simply identify the people whose files should be connected to yours." As a key player in the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, Taylor helped conceive and fund everything that later became ARPAnet, which in turn would carry the Internet

Approximately a decade later, a few pioneers began to dedicate time to such virtual communities. The first Internet service to capture a substantial number of non-technical users - long before the invention of the World Wide Web - was the Usenet. Started in 1979, allowed to hang messages to groups dedicated to specific topics. To this day it is still working. In 1985, Stewart Brand, Larry Brilliant and two other colleagues posted an electronic bulletin board The Whole EarhLectronic Link, or Well, in San Francisco. In 1987, Howard Rheingold, a great user of the Well, published an essay in which he coined the term virtual community to describe this new experience. "A virtual community is a group of people who can meet face to face or not," wrote Rheingold, "and who exchanged texts and ideas through the bulletin board and computer networks."

At the beginning of the World Wide Web, the notion of virtual community advanced a bit more. Services like TheGlobe.com, GeoCities and Tripood allowed users to create their own personal welcome pages that in some cases could be linked and connected to pages created by other members. The first web page of Mark Zucherberg was one that he created in GeoCities when he was still in the first years of high school. The popular Match.com dating page was paid and appeared in 1994 filled with personal information, but with a specific purpose. Classmates.com debuted in 1995 as a means to help people who identified with their real names, to find and communicate with their friends, former classmates.

The era of modern social networks finally began in early 1997. It was then when a new organization based in New York called sixdegrees.com inaugurated a groundbreaking service that was based on the real names of users. Two Internet sociologists, Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, listed the most remarkable characteristics of a true social network: a service whose users can "create a public or semi-public profile", "articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection" and "see and cross your contact list and those of others who are in the system." One establishes its position in a complex network of relationships, and places its profile in the context of these relationships, usually in order to reveal points of interest or with another element to explain the trends that led to Facebook: a virtual profile based on the authentic identity of the user

 Outside of the impact of Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and the rest of social networks, we must speak of the responsibility that its use implies, by imposing new rules, new dangers and new challenges in society, points out Mauro Rosero, executive director of the Software Free Foundation Panama..

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In the immediate future, everything digital, social networks included, of course, will be much more relevant, says Elsie Muñoz, specialist in the management of social networks and responsible for the Social Marketing agency in Panama.

He adds: "It is essential that both people and companies understand what this means. It is no longer optional to have a profile on social networks; It will be mandatory if xtyou want to be valid, whether at a professional or business level. In Panama there are many companies that still do not understand this and want to be in social networks, just because the competition is. But that should not be the fundamental reason. The reality is that markets are evolving and all these young digital natives will soon become the protagonists of the labor and business world. And they are all connected in social networks. "

 The next thing we will see in digital development will be to "connect" more of our devices to the internet and have access to social networks in non-traditional areas, Guerra notes.

The most interesting thing, he continues, is that the bulk of its users are under 17 years old. In other words, War emphasizes, "we adults were excluded from the next generation of social media and I think it's perfect. Each new generation will find different ways of expressing themselves and Snapchat gives that. Messages that are deleted in 5 seconds. Yes, that is what today's youth demands. To the older ones, who like to remember and remember moments, that costs us and we still do not understand it ".