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[|Tatiana Cortez]

**Social Network** : Noun  **Definition** :[| a network of friends,colleagues,and other personal contacts:Strongnsocialnnetwork scan encourage healthy behaviors.] A social network is something that many across the world use. Social networks connect us localy as well as worldwide. Its actually interesting how the world can be so large but so small.

[|We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.]

[|A social network represents relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities.]

There are many different types of social networks such as [|facebook],[| twitter], [|myspace], youtube, and even eharmony. One thing they all have in common is that they are all used to interact with other people. Social networking can be a good thing and it could be also a very bad thing. Its a good thing because people are able to talk to one another freely and anytime they want to. But it could be a bad thing because the people that go on these social networks are not always good people. They can search you without you knowing and that can lead to security problems and invasion of your privacy.

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