I received a cordial invitation by Ing. Emmanuel Alvarez, who is informatic teacher at Bachillerato Técnico #1, University of Colima, to talk about “Social networking” at the Informatics Forum. I really like the idea for some good reasons, the first one, social media (social networking, blogs, etc) is one of my favorite topics and the second one, and most important, the experience of interacting with young digitals users (NEXT generation), so I immediately accepted.

The students’ attendance was so good (438 students in total), I had to give my talk on two occasions for some problems with the size of the place, more than 200 students in each session. Each talk was around 1 hour, some general topics were:

1. A brief introduction about the evolution of the comunication, physical and digital.
2. What is “Social network” and  ”Social Networking”.
3. General characteristics of social networking sites.
4. History of social networking sites.
5. The most important social networking sites and interesting data.
6. the usage of social networking and difference between email & social networking sites.
7. Advantages and Disadvantages.
8. Desktop & Cellphone applications.
9. Social networking and youth.
10. Social networking and companies.
11. Social networking and México.
12. The future of social networking.

I tried to give my talk very interactive, so I received very good feedbacks about them. For example:

• 100% know Youtube and Facebook.
• 15%  don´t know about Twitter.
• 98% use Facebook as principal social networking site.
• 30% use Twitter.
• 25% use Metroflog.
• 5% use Hi5, but they didn’t found it interesting as Facebook.
• 90% doesn’t know the difference between Facebook and Twitter.

The principal questions were: business model of the social networks (focus in Facebook, Youtube, Twitter – how they make money), privacity/security of the data,  difference between social networking sites, and more. At the end, It was a pretty good experience for me.

I would like to thank to the teachers, L.I. Bertha Alicia Cobian Machuca and Ing. Emmanuel Alvarez Paredes for their kindness and help at the event.

Here are some photos, and also you can see more of them at Flickr:

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