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Social networks… What comes into your mind when you see this word-combination? Facebook, MySpace or LiveJournal? Or, probably, you thought about WordPress.com?

Social networks as a term appeared in 1954. This term was used to describe relationships in society. Social network means circle of acquaintance. Interesting point in this theory is theory of six handshakes. It means that you can reach each person in six steps. Two strangers are separated from each other by only five people. Now this theory is used as applied to Internet networks.

It won’t be wrong to assume that everyone who reads this blog use LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace or services similar to it. It is not a secret that it is a trend among teenagers to meet on-line using MySpace or Facebook. At the beginning these services tended to help in search and communication with friends. Now frameworks are much broader. People can share video, music or photos via MySpace. This leads to several implications in real-life.

Head – hunters use social networks for their purposes. You can easily find professional networks in web. The reason for using these sites as a path to work is that it is easier to get work through acquaintance. So people use it.

Video and music sharing service allows users to post their own creations. Others evaluate it and some day you wake up famous. Stars use MySpace and etc. to chat with their fans and introduce new compositions.

Also it is a good service for PR people. Information spreads very fast if you put it in a social network. We make people know about something new through these networks.

P.S. One question after all. What networks do YOU use?