The Social Network Influence on Labour Market

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1. INTRODUCTION: Social networks have existed since time immemorial; although the term did not exist as such, humans have always lived in groups and communities, united by geographical area, business relationship or affective interactions. The peculiarity is that now, these social networks are carried out in the virtual world. What that social networks today are the way to communicate over long distances, as well as a number of tools accompanying the people coexistence. Thus, the social network is called not only to a group of people, but the system that hosts and provides the necessary services. There are many definitions and theories about what they are and what they are not social networks, but there is still little consensus on it. The vast majority of authors agree that social networking is: “A web site designed to enable users to interact, communicate, share content and create communities”, or as a tool of “democratization of information that transforms those recipients and content producers”. Wikipedia, one of the media most viewed by Internet users, defines Network as "composite social structures of groups of people, which are connected by one or more types of relationships, such as friendship, kinship, common interest or shared knowledge”. A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. Examples of direct social networks are Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, hi5, Meetic, LinkedIn, Xing, MySpace Fotolog, Digg. While indirect social networks can be classified into the forums and blogs. The report "Social Media around the World" produced by the Belgian consultancy InSites Consulting in seven regions of the world, where 14 countries (Belgium, Holland, England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Romania, USA, Brazil, Australia, Russia and China),

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