Social network instead of the real world

Social Network is a social structure consisting of a group of nodes, which are social objects ( people or organizations ), and the connections between them. The term "Social Network" was introduced long before the advent of the Internet and the modern internet networks in 1954 sociologist from the " Manchester School" by James Barnes. The modern concept in plain sight is a circle of friends of man, where is the man himself - the center of a social network, his friends - a branch of the social network and the relationships between these people - connection. If we consider the social network more deeply, you may find that communication are divided into types: unilateral and bilateral, network of friends, colleagues, classmates, etc.

In the second half of the 20th century, social networks have become actively develop as a scientific concept, they first became popular in the west, and later came to us. Then it is a common notion professional sociologists turned into fashionable concept, which is one of the central concepts in Web 2.0, which as a concept first introduced by Tim O'Reilly, September 30, 2005 in his article «Tim O'Reilly - What Is Web 2.0». In 1995 there was the first, approximate to the modern, social network Classmates.com, which was created by Randy Conrad, owner of Classmates Online, Inc. This site helps visitors find registered and maintain relationships with friends, classmates and other acquaintances. Now this network recorded more than 40 million people, mostly from the United States and Canada. The concept proved successful and Classmates from the distant 2005 and it develops not only within this network has global giants such as My Space, FaceBook, Bebo and LinkedIn or giants headings Classmates, VKontakte, My World and My Circle.

Contemporary social psychology has long been faced with the phenomenon of "lonely in a crowd" - loneliness among people in a big team or large organization.

Oddly enough, but it helps the development of telecommunications and computer technology. Thus, the average office worker during the working day spends alone with the computer for at least 5-6 hours. Add to this the need for telephone communication, business correspondence in corporate intranets and evening leisure front of the TV or the computer (virtual communication in ICQ or Skype, computer games) - the total amount of time spent alone with the means of communication may be at least 8-12 hours per day, which cannot but leave its mark on value sphere and the behavior of the individual.

The phenomenon of internet addiction (addiction) repeatedly described foreign (K.Yang, D.Grinfild, K.Surratt, 1998-1999) and domestic (AE Voiskunsky, NV Chudova, ON Arestova, LA N.Babanin, 2000) researchers, including symptoms of this addictive behavior were such dominant (AE Voiskunsky, 2000) as:

• Depending on the computer, that is obsessive passion for work with a computer (games, or other programming activities);

• « information overload " that is, compulsive navigate WWW, search remote databases; • compulsive use of the Internet, there is a pathological attachment to mediate Internet gambling, online auctions or electronic purchases; • dependence on " cybersex ", that is from pornographic sites on the Internet, from discussing sexual themes in chats or newsgroups special "adult"; • dependence on " cyber relationship ", that is from social web applications : from communicating in chat rooms, newsgroups and group games, which can ultimately lead to the replacement of existing real-life family and friends virtual

That last symptom has recently become the most widely represented among ordinary users of the global web, in connection with the expansion of so-called social networks.

Time spent in the search, communication, virtual flirting and viewing photos,

videos about life, work and visit old friends, former classmates and fellow students exceeds the time to perform teaching duties.

I must say that communication itself in the format of such resources can hardly claim to be a full and effective communication, it is likely - the imaginary, that is an imaginary dialogue, imaginary, apparent. Increasing the share of the imaginary person in interaction with the surrounding world - is also one of the reasons for the popularity of social networks.

How to resist dependence

If a person has a feeling of discomfort, emptiness, he is trying to be filled with something. That something may well be the social network. There are the following psychological and physical symptoms associated with Internet addiction in general, and depending on the social networks in particular. The psychological symptoms include:

• Wellness euphoria or the computer;

• Inability to stop;

• Increase the amount of time spent at the computer;

• neglect of family and friends;

• feeling of emptiness, depression, anger, not the computer;

• false employers or family members about their activities;

• problems with work or school.

• Talk with people who without complexes;

• The brain is deteriorating;

The physical symptoms can include:

• carpal tunnel syndrome (tunnel defeat nerve trunks hands associated with prolonged muscle tension);

• dry eyes;

• headaches by type of migraine;

• back pain;

• irregular meals, skipping meals;

• neglect of personal hygiene;

• sleep disturbances, changes in sleep.

Dangerous signals (forerunners), depending on the social networking sites are:

• obsession constantly check e-mail;

• anticipation of the next session on-line;

• increase in time spent on-line;

• increase the amount of money spent online.

"If you cannot defeat the enemy, make him my friend!" It is necessary to take advantage of social networks to life and balance using the following methods. In any case, it's addictive may considerably damage the physical or mental condition. This should be resisted.

Here are a few tips that can help to overcome this addiction.

1. Pauses.

Determine the approximate amount of time you spend at your computer and your brains and reaction still fresh and not fixated. Maybe someone this period is an hour or three hours, each individually.

2. Phone

Closest to your friends or relatives try to call and find out how you doing? Do not forget, this is the most expensive people to you. Plus it will distract you from the computer for a while.

3. Healthy Food

Make it a rule to drink vitamins in the morning. Keep plenty of natural juices and dairy products in the refrigerator.

4. Use restrictions and filters

Disable unnecessary to invite you to numerous groups. Set to accept messages only from friends. Operate with a list of alerts friends about your actions. Waste matter your friend to add a new application that you want to check only kills your time.

5. Yoga

Spend 10 minutes a day of simple exercises and you will get positive energy.

6. Breathing

Nothing so enriches the body with oxygen, such as deep breathing. Oxygen - the engine of the brain. Take a pause and breathe calmly, smoothly from 2 to 5 minutes. Slowly inhaling and exhaling. Do not make long exhalation breaths; otherwise you probably will pull to sleep.

The rise of social networks will continue the next few years. Our psychology is designed so that most of us have become dependent, and social networks will in almost all areas of real human life. Therefore, most of the world's population cannot avoid social networking.

Everyone decides for him than are social networks. Just let real life would be complete and brighter virtual.

Subjects and methods

The object of our study were students and students of educational institutions in Almaty, which in November - December 2013 were asked to answer the questionnaire (Appendix), which is distributed via the Internet. Then, the completed questionnaires were processed, and the results recorded in the table, on which there are graphs and analysis.