Redes sociais na Internet: uma investigação sobre práticas de compartilhamento de arquivos no Facebook

• Autor(a) principal: Bergamaschi, Sidnei [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Albino, João Pedro [UNESP], Tripoloni, João Manoel Palmeira [UNESP], Barizon, Marcus Vinycius Flores [UNESP], Slobodticov, Renato [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://revista.feb.unesp.br/index.php/gepros/article/view/900; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134629
• topic: Social networks; Facebook; Internet; Information technology; Redes sociais; Facebook; Internet; Tecnologia da informação

The social networking sites have experienced a large and rapid growth in recent years and bring together millions of users in Brazil and worldwide. Such networks allow adding groups of people with common interests or relationships, enabling members of this group to communicate and exchange information. Some social networks have specific goals, for example, aggregate individuals with common interests and professional relationships. However, they all share information in some way, whether in the form of short texts, photos, videos, among others. Sharing information in files is also a growing activity on the Internet and can be done in various ways, from sending files via email to multiple contacts to make available areas shared by the same contacts. However, applications are not yet available to enable file sharing on Facebook, considered the premier social network today. Given the growing demand for sharing files over the Internet, and a large number of users familiar with the use of these integrated applications for Facebook there is a demand for applications that allow users to share files with their contacts in this social network. This study aims to investigate how users use Facebook, and their practices for file sharing. It is believed that the results will substantiate future projects to develop software for file sharing on Facebook. Due to the exploratory nature of this research, the choice was made for a survey to collect data, applied through the web. From the results obtained, was possible to observe a frequent use of file sharing, but no interest in paid services. Regarding Facebook, was possible to observe their extensive use in both the frequency of access as the hours spent, as well as an increased use of applications (games, quiz, etc.). The full set of results shows a favorable environment for developing applications for sharing files on Facebook.