THE DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY AND CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION

We aim to reflect on the presence and influence of the online social networks in society and education, search to identify its importance as a communication and information tool, and also ideological aspects inherent to this phenomenon. Therefore, it was done bibliographic and user exploratory research with teaching in a public school of the urban area of a town norte-rio-grandense, seeking answers to the problems of this study, in other words: what is the influence of digital social networks in contemporany society and in education? Thus so, we observed, among other results their influence in the political organization of the citizens how much the struggle for social improvements; in the way they of perceive the current space-time; in the concept of autonomy and experience; in the consumption; in the acquisition of knowledge, and also in the teaching and learning process, phenomena that need to be thought, especially by educational institutions.