Online environment and social networks

The online environment dominates us every day, it is present in our lives constantly, and we let it, especially because it offers us the magical social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms that everyone uses or used them at some point in their life. Other popular platforms are Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube.

We encounter a variety of things online, social networks, informations, news, movies, music, games and so on. We enjoy every single thing the online environment has to give us but mostly we use it to communicate and we do that through social media. We can read news on Facebook, for example, post pictures of our cute outfits, pets or travel destinations on Instagram. We say our opinions, we give and receive likes, comments, all of this is giving us a feeling of acceptance, of being  a part of something, a community,we feel like we belong. We meet people, maybe make some friends and like this the online environment becomes our best friend..

In this era, social networks have gained incredible ground. All this happened in a fairly simple way: they allow the surprise item to fit perfectly into the context, whether the purpose of the communication is purely informative or refers to promotion. Social networks are crowned as queens of interactivity.

From websites to HTML and web design, we can get to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and a new way to communicate.

Facebook is an Internet social networking web site created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 to provide the opportunity to contact nearby people as well as people who are still unknown. At this time facebook is one of the most widespread social networks in the world. Appreciated as the world’s second social networking site after google.com, facebook is part of the phenomenon recently called Web 2.0.

Instagram  is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that gives users the ability to upload photos and videos, apply digital filters, and distribute them on a variety of social networks such as Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter.