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Social Networking
What is Social Networking?
A web based social network focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. They provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. These websites are being used regularly by millions of people every day. The main types of social networking services contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust.
Why Social Networking?
Through social networking, people can use networks of online friends and group memberships to keep in touch with current friends, reconnect with old friends or create real–life friendships through similar interests or groups. Besides establishing important social relationships, social networking members can share their interests with other like–minded members by joining groups and forums. Some networking can also help members find a job or establish business contacts.
What to Look for in Social Networking.
The phenomenon of online social networking—made extremely popular by MySpace.com , has evolved to include more than the teenage stereotype looking to expand his/her network of online friends. People of all ages and backgrounds have discovered that they can enrich their lives through the contacts they make on a social networking website.
Criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate Social Networking websites:
- Profiles- The heart and soul of social networking sites are user’s personal profiles. It’s like their own Internet sanctuary, a place where they can express their thoughts and feelings, post photographs and show off their network of friends. The most popular social network websites put a strong emphasis on the user’s profile, making it easy to use yet still reflective of the user’s personality.
- Security- The Internet can be a dangerous place to post personal information. All social networks should provide the ability to set profiles to private in some way or another. Additionally they should have the ability to report and block users.
- Networking Features- A good social network goes above and beyond just allowing users to post profiles and update pictures. Additional features should include music sections, video uploads, groups and more.
- Search- The object of a social network is to find friends and expand relationships. Top social networking websites allows members to search for other members in a safe and easy to use environment. Common search functions include search by name, city, school and email address.
- Help/Support- Most social network sites are self-explanatory. However, in the off-chance a user needs help there needs to be some way to contact the webmaster or answers in an FAQs section.
- Legitimate Friend Focus- The growing trend for social networks is to communicate and keep in touch with people you already know. No one wants to be inundated with unsolicited spam friend requests. The best social network sites keep profiles and search options private enough that the only people that can find you are the ones actually looking for users in their own school or neighborhood networks. Even with a completely public profile, users shouldn’t be bothered with more than a couple of unsolicited comments or messages.
Five of the most popular social networking sites:
- Myspace - A Place for friends. Myspace is the largest social network in the world. They have more users than any other and the majority of their users are over 30. Myspace focuses around the music industry. If you are looking for a band to listen to or want to find out when their next concert is, then Myspace is the place to find them. Myspace also allows users to customize their own pages, so you can make it look as exciting or boring as you want.
- Facebook - Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. If you’re looking for a long lost friend, try Facebook, it is great for inding people. Profiles are not customizable and their platform is very clean and slick. They focus on interactions and how users use their site. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. With Facebook, you can receive messages through your email address or by logging on to their site.
- Twitter - What are you doing? Answering this one simple question is at the heart of Twitter. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' tweets. Tweets are short, text-based posts which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).
- Hi5 - Hi5 is used a lot by the older generation. It doesn’t really have a focus, but would be a good place to head to find out if your older friends are online.
- LinkedIn - Relationships matter. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. This site allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection. It is great way to keep a presence and a network in the business community.
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Social Networking
What is Social Networking?
A web based social network focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. They provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. These websites are being used regularly by millions of people every day. The main types of social networking services contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust.
Why Social Networking?
Through social networking, people can use networks of online friends and group memberships to keep in touch with current friends, reconnect with old friends or create real–life friendships through similar interests or groups. Besides establishing important social relationships, social networking members can share their interests with other like–minded members by joining groups and forums. Some networking can also help members find a job or establish business contacts.
What to Look for in Social Networking.
The phenomenon of online social networking—made extremely popular by MySpace.com , has evolved to include more than the teenage stereotype looking to expand his/her network of online friends. People of all ages and backgrounds have discovered that they can enrich their lives through the contacts they make on a social networking website.
Criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate Social Networking websites:
Five of the most popular social networking sites:
Saving images for the web.
Images must be prepared for the web before they can be used on your site. If it's too large it will take a long time to load, making the user impatiently move onto the another site. If it's too small it may look grainy and pixelated. Proper preperation is key. Learn about it below.
An helpful article that discusses the how to's of successful image preperation.
Follow this link for a simple online application that will assist you in preparing your images
Or we might suggest this free online service.