who live in far places.
problems that, I think, are caused many times by users themselves, who show their imprudence by publishing online; maybe, since they are involved in a new confidential relationship with the Internet, they often operate imprudently or like in a relational chain friends and acquaintances do it for them. In this case, I do not consider completely inadequate popular articles dealing with Social Networks in an apocalyptic way, because at least they act as a deterrent towards their users, who do not want to wonder too much about hidden threats and dangers.
Moreover, Social Media show that wonders will never cease with the Internet when people think about ways that can improve sociability, that is, the opportunity to express oneself and obviously have fun; it has to be underlined that the play element must not be belittled or underestimated: certainly, some studies such as those by Nicholas A. Christiakis and J. H. Fowler on the success of happy people within Facebook make us smile ( http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ch ristakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08 _index.html ) but nonsense and banalities that are discovered or left as a message in the profiles make users feel closer.
In my opinion, instead, the biographical and mnemonic characteristics of Social Networks are not underlined enough: like in the blogs, which have the form of a diary, but with more intimacy and spontaneity, people are encouraged to update their profiles, because they have many comforts at their disposal. It is not relevant if the profile corresponds to the mood or the thoughts of these people or if it expresses their banality, in any case the user contributes, often unconsciously, to the creation of an archive of his/her social relationships. For this reason, Social Media could even be defined “personal memory” or “biographical media”, but they certainly do not lack the new
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It is difficult to investigate, in this short article, privacy legal problems linked to Social Networks, which are more deeply discussed elsewhere,
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