Article by By Avv. Felix
Hofer2
1. Reports and statistics inform us periodically about the
booming impact of social forums, -platforms or –networks
on Netizens all over the World. Europe clearly doesn't go
exempt from the effects of such phenomenon: according to survey
results published in Spring 2009 Facebook ranks as the
number one social network in Europe with an incredible share of
4.9% of the time spent on-line by Internet users3. While
in a country like the United Kingdom, the popular social network
had been able to achieve in 2008 the remarkable target of about 22
million of unique visitors per month, even in geographic regions
with significantly lower Internet use Facebooks'
popularity simply exploded: in Italy, a country behind most of all
other EU member states in Internet usage, the social network had
approximately 2 million registered users in 2008, but 6.5 million
twelve months later4. During the same period the number
of unique monthly visitors has
