1st assignement

Hi!

Due to personal reasons I could not post my message before today.
In that case, I decided to talk about another trend that the listmania. I chose the social networking trend.

What is a social networking exactly? According to wikipedia it is" a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes." This culture phenomenom dates from a few years and is a bit different to the blogmania.
As you all can see, this is something quite popular nowadays. We (especially youg people, the "internet generation") all are part of at least one social network; the best illustration would be Facebook (2007). Why are we so mad about this? The main reason would be that we want to feel that we are part of something, we are all connected, not alone any more. Social life has alsways been hugely important for the human kind. Now we stay in touch with hundreds of friends all over the world, sharing datas or looking for relationships. Professionally speaking we have the opportunity to show everyone who we are and what we can do without any restrictions. This is the case of Myspace where produceurs search now for new stars or trade network where we do business online.
This is a new step in the globalization phenomenom.