The Internet is the defining technology of the information age because the electronic engine was the vector of technological transformation in the industrial age. This global network of computer networks, nowadays based primarily on wireless communication platforms, transcends space, providing versatile, interactive communication at selected times. The Internet is not really a new technology: its ancestor, Arpanet, was first deployed in 1999 (Abbott 1999). However, when it was privatized in the 1990s and released from the control of the US Department of Commerce, it spread around the world at an alarming rate: the first survey of Internet users in 1996 counted about 40 million; In 2013, China had the highest number of Internet users at 2.5. Also, for some time, the spread of the Internet was limited by the difficulty of establishing ground-based telecommunications infrastructure in emerging countries. This has changed with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century. In fact, in 1991 there were about 1 million subscribers to wireless devices in the world, in 2013 they were one billion (a planet of 7.7 billion people). Considering the use of mobile phones in families and villages and the limited use of these devices among children under five, we can say that mankind is now almost fully connected, although there is a huge disparity in bandwidth as well as service efficiency and cost.

The Internet, at the heart of these communication networks, ensures the production, distribution, and use of digitalized information in all formats. According to a study published in Martin Hilbert Science (Hilbert and LaPage 2011), 95 percent of all information on the planet is digitized and most of it is accessible on the Internet and other computer networks.

The speed and scope of change in our communication environment through the Internet and wireless communication have created all kinds of utopian and dystopian ideas around the world.

The distorted notion is further exacerbated by the media turning into scary reports based on anecdotal observations and biased comments. If there is one subject where the social sciences, in their diversity, must contribute to the full realization of the region in which we live, it is certainly the region that has become known in academia as Internet Studies. Because, in fact, academic research knows a great deal about the interaction between the Internet and society, systematically conducted over many years in cultural and institutional contexts based on rigorous empirical research. Any process of great technological change produces its own myth. For example, the media often report that intense use of the Internet increases the risk of isolation, isolation, frustration, and alienation from society. Indeed, the available evidence shows that there is no relationship or positive cumulative relationship between Internet use and social intensity. We observe that, overall, the more connected people, the more they use the Internet. And the more they use the Internet, the more they socialize online and offline, the more their civic engagement and the intensity of family and friend relationships across all cultures - except for a few preliminary studies on the Internet in the 1990s - later revised by their author (Castles 2001; Castles et al. Al. 2007; Rainey and Wellman 2012; Center for Digital Future 2012 and others.).

Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to summarize the results of some basic research on the social effects of the Internet-based on the evidence given by some large organizations, especially in the social research of the Internet. More specifically, I will use data from around the world: the World Internet Survey conducted by the University of Southern California, Digital Future Center; Reports from the British Computer For data from the United States, I used the Pew American Life and Internet project at the Pew Institute. On behalf of the UK, the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford Internet Survey from Oxford University, as well as the Virtual Society Project of the Economic and Social Science Research Council. For Spain, the project Internet Catalonia of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the University of Oberta de Catalunya (UOC); Various reports from the information society from Telefonica; And from the Orange Foundation. For Portugal, the da Informo e du Conhichemento (OSIC) at the Observatory Sociedad in Lisbon. I would like to emphasize that most of the data in these reports are aggregated towards similar trends. Thus I have found searches for my analysis that complement and reinforce each other, providing a consistent picture of the human experience on the Internet despite the diversity of people.

Considering the purpose of this publication to a wide audience, I will not present the data in this text in support of the analysis presented here. Instead, I refer the interested reader to the web sources of the research institutes mentioned above, as well as to selected bibliographic references discussing the empirical basis of the social trends described here.

The Internet has turned our existence upside down. It has revolutionized communication, it is now our preferred means of daily communication. We use the internet in almost every case. Ordering pizza, buying a television, sharing a moment with a friend, sending a picture via instant messaging. Before the internet, if you wanted to catch this news, you had to go down to the newsstand when it opened in the morning and buy a local version to report what had happened the day before. But one or two clicks is enough to read your local paper and any news source from anywhere in the world today.

The Internet has transformed itself. In its early days - which is still relatively recent from a historical point of view - it was a stable network designed to shut down a small freight byte or a short message between two terminals; It was a repository of information where the content was only published and maintained by expert coders. Today, however, a lot of information is uploaded and downloaded on this electronic Leviathan and the content is our own, for now, we are all commentators, publishers, and creators.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the IT capabilities of universities and research centers and, subsequently, the scope to include government entities, institutions, and non-governmental organizations around the world were widened. The internet has grown a lot; It was no longer a state-controlled project, but the world's largest computer network, with more than 50,000 sub-networks, 4 million systems, and 100 million users.

The emergence of Web 2.0 in the first decade of the twenty-first century was a revolution in the short history of the Internet itself, with the rise of social media and other interactive, crowd-based communication tools.

The Internet was no longer just concerned with the exchange of information: it was a sophisticated multidisciplinary tool that enabled individuals to create content, communicate with each other, and survive in reality. Today, we can transmit data from one end of the world to the other in a matter of seconds, present online, live in parallel "game worlds" and use images, videos, words, and text to share our real life, our real Identity personal stories are universal; Local problems became global.

Controversy has erupted over how Internet communication affects social relationships. We are a networked, globalized society connected by a new network. We use the Internet to communicate with each other and then new challenges are created for privacy and security.

Information technology has brought about a fundamental change in society from age to age and has taken it forward from the industrial age to the net network age. In our world, global information networks are important infrastructure - but how has this human relationship changed? The Internet business, education, government, healthcare, and even the way we talk to our loved ones - have become one of the key drivers of social evolution.

Changes in social communication are particularly significant. Although analog tools still have their place in some sectors, new technologies are gaining ground on a daily basis by transforming the practice and possibilities of communication - especially among the young. The Internet has removed all communication barriers. Online, the conventional limitations of space and time disappear and there is a much wider range of communication possibilities. The impact of social media applications has sparked discussions on “new communication democracy”.

The development of the internet today is taking shape instantly, mainly through mobile communication. Mobile internet is a new revolution. Extensive internet connectivity through smartphones and tablets is leading to the growing mobile reality: we are not confined to a single specific device and everything is in the cloud.

The Internet has become embedded in every aspect of our daily lives, we have changed the way we communicate with others. This insight hit me when I started in the world of social media. I created my first social network in 2005 when I was finishing college in the United States. It had a political theme. I have already seen that social media was on the verge of changing the way we communicate, helping us to share information by opening a new channel that goes beyond the conventional ones.

This first attempt did not work, but I learned from experience. I get the feeling that failure is severely punished in many countries - but the reality is that the only sure way to avoid failure is to do nothing. I firmly believe that mistakes help you improve; Making them wrong teaches them how to be right. Creativity, hard work, and a positive attitude allow you to achieve any goal.

In 2006, after I moved to Spain, I made Twenty. Tutti (which, contrary to widespread belief, has nothing to do with the number 20; it is obviously abbreviated to the Spanish for "your entity") is a social communication platform for true friends. From the beginning, the idea was to keep it simple, relevant, and personal. This is the key to his success.

I think the real value of social media is that you can keep up to date with people who are really important. Social media allows you to share experiences and information; They instantly come into contact with people and ideas without borders. Camaraderie, friendship, and solidarity - social phenomena that have long been as humanism have been freed from the conventional constraints of space and time and can now succeed in a variety of ways.

Among all the communication opportunities that the Internet has opened up, I will highlight the rise of social media and how they have become intricately mixed in our daily lives. Social media has changed our personal space, changed how we interact with our loved ones, friends, and our sexual partners; They have also forced us to rethink basic daily processes such as studying and shopping; They have damaged the economy by fostering a business start-up culture and electronic commerce; They have even given us new ways to form a broad-based political movement.

The Internet has clearly influenced education at all levels by providing unlimited possibilities for learning. I believe the future of education is the future of a network. People can use the Internet to create and share knowledge and create new methods of teaching and learning that captivate and stimulate students' imaginations at any time, at any time, using any device. By connecting and empowering students and educators, we can accelerate economic development and enhance the well-being of society around the world. We should work together through a network to build a global learning society.

Networks are an inexhaustible source of network information. What's more, the Internet has enabled the recipients of messages delivered by the conventional media to move away from their previous passive roles as recipients, choosing what information to receive, how and when to choose.

As a result, power relations, this is the relationship that forms the basis of all societies, as well as challenging processes in relation to institutional power, increasingly shaped and decided in terms of communication. Meaningful, conscious communication that makes people human. Thus, any major transformation in communication technology and organization is highly relevant to social change. Over the past four decades, the advent of the Internet and wireless communication has greatly shifted the process of communication in society from mass communication to mass self-communication. It comes from one-to-many to multi-message, multimodal, a message with little interactivity in a system based on messages at selected times and with interconnection so that the sender is the sender and the sender is the sender. And both have multimodal hypertext access to the web that forms the backbone of endless changes in communication processes.

The transformation of communication from mass communication to mass self-communication has made a determined contribution to change the process of social change. Since power relations have always been based on the control of communication and information that feeds the nervous networks of the human mind, the emergence of horizontal networks of communication has created a new landscape of social and political change by the process of isolating government and corporate control over communication. This is the power of networks because social actors create their own networks based on their projects, values, and interests. The outcome of these processes is open and depends on the specific context. Freedom, in this case, freedom of communication, does not say anything about the use of freedom in society. It is established by scholarly research. But we need to start with this great historical event: the creation of a global communication network based on the Internet, a technology that embodied the culture of freedom that was at its source. communication within their movements and with the wider society. These networked social movements, formed on the social networking sites of the Internet, have merged into urban spaces and institutional spaces, and the network has been a key driver of social change in society, inducing a new form of a social movement. Networked social movements have been particularly active since 2010, and especially in the Arab revolutions against dictatorships; As a form of protest against the management of the financial crisis in Europe and the United States; In Brazil; In Turkish; Mexico; And conditions in highly varied institutional contexts and economic conditions it is ultimately the adaptation of movements in different contexts that allow the onset of assumptions that it is characteristic of social movements in global network societies. In all cases, we observe the potential of this movement for self-organization without central leadership on the basis of spontaneous emotional movements. In all cases there is a connection between Internet-based communication, mobile networks, and various media, feeding each other and broadening the movement locally and globally.

These movements take place in the context of exploitation, social tension, and social struggle; But battles that have not been able to successfully challenge the state in other situations are now driven by mass-self-communication tools. It is not technology that motivates the movement, but without technology (Internet and wireless communication) social movements will not take the current form of challenging the power of the state. The point is that technology is the material culture (ideas were designed) and the Internet embodied the culture of freedom that it is documented, published on American campuses in the 1960s. This culture-created technology is the source of a new wave of a social movement that exemplifies the depth of the global impact of the Internet in all areas of social organization, particularly affecting power relations, the foundation of society's institutions. (See Case Study and Analytical Perspectives on the Interaction between Internet and Networked Social Movements at Castles 2012)

The Internet, like all technologies, does not create effects on its own. Nevertheless, it has a definite effect on changing the interactive, multimodal, asynchronous or synchronous, global or local and multi-person, people-to-people, object-to-object communication capabilities and relying on the increasingly semantic web from object to object. How these characteristics affect certain systems of social relationships needs to be established through research and I have tried to present this in this article. It is clear that without the Internet, we have not seen the greater development of networking as a fundamental process of social structural, and social change in every sphere of social life. The industrial society was the support system that transformed the idea that the electric engine was a form of social organization. Thus, as a social construct, this technological system is open, because network society is an open finishing form of social organization that reveals the best and worst aspects of mankind. Nevertheless, the Global Network Society is a key area of 21st-century research to understand its reasoning based on the interaction between culture, organization, and technology in the formation and development of our society, and social and technological networks.

We can only progress in our perception through the combined efforts of scholarly research. Only then will we be able to cut the myths around the core technology of our time that still understands horribly.