Communicating via the internet!

In the last years, multiple web pages have been created with the objective of communicating people from all over the world. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are just some examples of this. However, before we can give our opinion of this web sites, we must know the differences between Social Media and Social Networks.

• Social Media: Is where you can grab information from. 
• Social Network: Is where you share information. (In this group we consider Facebook, Twitter, etc)

Apart from this, we must take a look to online communities, which are groups of persons with similar interests that join in a online forum or chat. Personally, I've been involved in many communities related to music, like the Iron Maiden's Chilean Fan Club, which I check every day. But there are many other topics for online communities, like Technology, Arts, Games, Traveling, and many others.

Nevertheless, we must know that there are some problems when using the internet to communicate, because the anonymity. In Facebook, for example, you can create an account with any name, including another person's name, to create him a bad reputation. However, there are many ways to identify the PC where the messages where written, specially the IP address. 

Finally, I want to refer to language. I've learnt a lot of "internet slang" through many years playing online games. And I must say I don't thing words like "lol", "ffs" or "omg" should be considered bad language, because they fulfill their purpose of communicate gamers.