Article about social networks If somebody had spoken about social networks or social media twenty years ago, most people would have furrowed their brows because nobody would have been able to make use of this idea. Nowadays it's a well known term and a bulk of people is also using it. But why is social media, especially Facebook, used by so many people? It began in a dorm on Harvard university in 2004. Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his best friends had a new idea in social connection – sharing social experiences in the internet – called Facebook. Nobody would have thought at this time that this idea will have so an enormous currency. Now in 2014, Facebook has over a billion users in the whole world. People like to share pictures, videos or only sad or happy moments with their friends, but their is also a small sense of being accepted in community if you get many likes or comments for your inputs. You may not agree with me, but I think, this is the main factor why so many people are using Facebook. Another thing is that you can find so many things about some people, even if you don't know them well. When you have accepted the friends request you see the most of the opposite's social interactions. In consideration of this points you should bother if you want to share your private data with other people than your best friends. Social networks also can be used for communication. It's much simpler than calling or texting somebody with your cellphone. In addition to that you also have better capabilities in connection to friends who live far away. It happened to me when my brother was in China for about half a year. It was really difficult to keep in touch with telephoning, so we changed to the social connection service Skype. This was much cheaper because it was a communication over the internet. Furthermore it was more stable and much more comfortable. Social networking nowadays is wide-ranging. There is not only communication or Facebook. Youtube for example is also a social network for sharing videos or twitter a network for sharing short messages. Social networking is a topic that will engage in future as many people as it does now because there are always new features and ideas. If you ask me social networking is far away from vanishing into thin air.