The popularity of social networks nowadays is really incredible. Both developers and users have felt it. Up-to-date people frequently even can't imagine themselves without social networks and virtual communication. But is this good or bad tendency? In this article we will try to help you answer this question.
First of all, pluses:
1. Social networks give us communication, connections with a incredible number of people. It is not a secret today, that internet communication has become far more attractive for a lot of people. And in today's society a great quantity of people are just lonely and for them virtual communication is a necessity.
2.A search for classmates, old friends. Social network allow us to discover old friends that have moved long ago, classmates and sometimes relatives we are not in touch with. We have a possibility ot communicate with them online and meet in real life. Not long ago we could just dream of such possibilities.
3. Find new friends and meet new people. Social networks give us unbelievable dating possibilities. The great quantity of members in social network besides gives possibility to all all members to discover friends according to their interests and hobbies.
4. Great possibilities for advert and job finding. Social networks can be also used as bulletin boards and taking into consideration the quantity of users, really effective ones.
5.Interests. For many users social networks are the pleasant spending of time. Such hobby is not a bad

one and it gives people many possibilities for self-realization. In social networks people can be whoever they wish and communicate without worries.
But of course, as many popular phenomena social networks have their problems also:
1. The info distributed in social network can be connected by who ever, without users’ even being informed about it.
2. Contact details may be used for spam.
3. Sometimes social networks can even harm families and close relatives. The explanation in this case is simple: users, who are too fond of social networks spend there all their time and don’t pay attention to their relatives. In such case, such hobby sometimes spoils real life relationships.
4. The absence of control can harm the psychics of children. Parents should pay attention with whom their children spend time in in the internet.
5. Medics frequently say that social networks are dangerous because they cause the addiction, and it is really so. Many people don't imagine spending a day without visiting the social network. The absence of internet becomes tragedy and people got addicted to online communication. Especially if people have problems in real life, they spend a lot of time in social networks in this way replacing life with social networks.
On the whole, the attitude to social networks can be different depending on the people and concrete situation, but they have conquered a big segment of net and are still developing. Nowadays many people just can’t live without social networks and the number of their users is today growing nowadays. But the main matter here is to find a golden mean: use all advantages that social networks offer us but don’t forget about the real life too.