It has been commonplace for more than a decade now to say that those of us who inhabit advanced societies such as in North America, Japan, and Western Europe live in an ‘‘information society.’’ The claim that this is so comes routinely from politicians, educationalists, and industrialists, each of whom have concerns about how best to prepare for and compete in this information age. So familiar ...

Social networks, which emerged due to the rapid development of modern telecommunications and information technologies that led to the emergence of the Internet, can be viewed as a phenomenon of the information society. In a short time, there has been both quantitative and qualitative growth of social networks, which have become a common phenomenon in our life and the dominant way of communicati...