Contribuțiile social networks în reconfigurarea socialului din România

Abstract

Social Networks (as a part of Social Media) represents the online suport for social interaction, which customizes the opportunity to share ideas, photos, videos, etc. within a community. Social Media, where we can also include the social network Facebook, accelerate the conversations between Internet users, unlike the traditional mass-media, which just delivers content, but doesn't allow readers, viewers, listeners to participate in the creation or development of the content. Also, these online social media have led to the reconfiguration of social relationships and society, as a whole, exponentially contributing to the acceleration of globalization. The study's objective is to identify how the Romanians interact through Facebook and its implications in the process of socialization of Internet users in Romania. The research method used to achieve the objectives of the study is an online survey on a sample of 500 Facebook users from Romania, entitled “The Romanians and
Facebook”, which was published on the website www.tashy.ro. The research was conducted from 7 to 21 November 2010. The most important findings of the study are that thanks to Facebook, it is easier for the users to talk to people in the real world and more than 82% of the respondents have recommended their friends to create an account on Facebook. Most of the respondents have higher education completed or in progress, unlike other social networking sites, Facebook put more emphasis on users' personal information (studies, work, interests), giving visitors a “book Business” of the people they have visited. Many users from Romania created their account in 2010, which allows us to affirm that social network Facebook is still under development in Romania, its implications in the social relations making for a research topic in the future.