identify three social networks that you belong to and LABEL each of them in terms of their "Structural Characteristics", "Functions", and "Type(s) of Support". And explain how the social support you received link to health-relevant outcomes such as health behaviors (e.g., smoking cessation), adherence to medical regimens (e.g., medication), development of and the course of specific chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes), or any others? 

SOCIAL NETWORKS I BELONG TO:

• FACEBOOK. This app is a social networking app that was founded by a man named Mark Zuckerberg in early 2004, along with his roommate and fellow classmates in the University that he was studying in. Facebook was meant to be used by the University students only because it was supposed to serve as a book for all students that contains their faces and basic information, for them to easily reach out to one another within the University. But then as time went by, a lot of people likened the fact that there was already an easy way to connect and reconnect with the people you are close with, hence they expanded it and became globally available for everyone. Now, its main function is to create a more closer world for people who feel far away from each other and establish a connection among themselves. Its purpose is also to make people reconnect with their love ones who are at a different place than them as well as to make people express of whatever it is that they feel like expressing through such app. The app offers its users the opportunity to create a status, something that they would like to say or share to other people as well as messenger, the main source of messages between two people who are chatting with one another. This app is probably one of the most famous app used by a lot of people around the world. Although in some regions there are other more popular apps than facebook, but in the country that i come from. This is by far the most used and most popular. Reason being is that it gives the people who are using it some sense of support, specifically informational support, this type of support speaks about the on going events and news the that you get out from the happenings in the world through facebook. There is also emotional support and belonging support because through using this app, even if we are far away from one another we can still be able to check on each other through messaging and commenting of which can help with our welfare as individuals. We also experience that we belong in such world because we are able to establish a connection with one another regardless of where we are in the world. 
• INSTAGRAM. This kind of global social network focuses more on uploading photos, recording short videos called stories and sharing moments with/to other people. There is less communication in this app compared to facebook, although a lot of people still do communicate using this app. This app was created by Systrom and Krieger in late 2010. Instagram or "Insta" logo have changed over the years and have also already been bought by the facebook app holders. The main function of such app is to make people become more creative of their own photo through editing them using different filters, cropping a side of the image and etc. Its purpose was to make the users of such app to experiment their own photographs and give them choices on how they want their photos to look like and appear on such app. This app also offers you other accounts to be able to follow you and be updated of your moments shared through your IG account. Basically the support that this app gives is just the same with the previous one which are informational, emotional and belonging support. Informational because through the photos being shared we are able to visualize the news and other occurrences in the world, be it positive or negative. Emotional because it also gives us the opportunity to check up on our friends, family and relatives through the photos and stories that we see from their posts. And belonging because we become a community with the people that we follow and people that follows us. It gives a sense of connection towards one another. 
• TWITTER. This app is also just quite similar to the first two. This app was founded by 4 American people in 2006. This app has also reached a global fame and is used by a lot of young adults, celebrities, influencers and etc. The main function of such network is microblogging, meaning they can blog their daily routine in life if they want to and give updates to people that they follow and follows them. Also, this is use to be able to socialize with other people through online. Tweets is similar to what a status is on facebook, the things or sentences that you post and share on twitter are called tweets and is limited to 140 characters only which means that if there is a need for you to have more than 140 characters, you can just reply to that tweet and it will then serve as a thread of that first tweet you posted. Which can be very helpful for posting updates and any kind of news to people. The app also allows you to post pictures and videos as well as directly messaging a close friend or a family member. Informational, emotional and belonging are still the types of support that this app have. Information in a sense that it also provides and give updates to people about the latest or the most recent news in your area or anywhere in the world. Though twitter is big for celebrity news, they still provide you with enough information about other matters. Emotional in a way that there are basically so many twitter users who are concerned of your welfare. Mostly are strangers, and even though they are, you can still feel that your are being emotionally supported by those people because of all the encouraging words that they share towards you through their microblogging way. And belonging because it makes you feel that you belong because a lot of the people in twitter understands you and knows where you are coming from, so they welcome you wholeheartedly and make you feel that you belong also to their world. 
   

Social support of such apps have been known to have a bad effect on people's health behavior due to the amount of usage and its level of intensity that they possess when using such. But in my case, with all the type of support that i mentioned in all of the social network that i use or can relate to did not really negatively affect my health behavior nor did i have or develop any kind of health related problems. Probably because my usage of such apps are being controlled by me. I believe that i have strong and solid knowledge of what these social networks can cause me if i let it get into me. I am fully aware also of the consequences when i use too much these apps. So i remain as i am for me to not be put in trouble because of it. Also, i choose always to look at the positive of everything, so even though that i know that these apps have their own respective bad effects, i do not let it bother me because i can always counterpart them, i just have to always remember to be responsible so that i would never develop any harmful effects on myself. 

Step-by-step explanation

All the answers that i provided is based on my personal situation and experiences of such social networks. I also based everything according to how i understood the question being asked. I bulleted form it so that it will be easy for you to read everything. hopefully i am able to provide you a good answer and hope you will be able to understand it well. ????