Today’s guest post is by Allen Mireles.

Social networks are exploding.

According to Hubspot, this year Internet users in the U.S. will expand to 239 million, representing more than 75 percent of the total population.

And mobile Internet users will reach 113.9 million in 2012, up 17 percent in 2011.

The number of new web users, including those with little to no previous experience, grows daily.

For those of us who work online, and hang out in social networks, it’s easy to forget what it was like in those first months of using the social web.

We’ve learned how things work, we understand the pace is furiously fast, and we’ve discovered some of the pitfalls and challenges.

Not so for everyone. (more…)