he 21st century saw the disclosed one on one by the
boom of the social account owner to another member.
networking industry.
Online social communities have Another social network,
formed and flourished, bridging SixDegrees.com, emerged in 1997.
that space between and among SixDegrees allows its users to
people from different ages, race, send messages or post bulletins
and gender. Dozens of social to a list of friends or family
networking sites are now catering members found within their
to the hobbies and interests of network. SixDegrees faced its
millions of users all over the early demise four years later,
world. just as the Friendster online
community was starting to
Social networking began with flourish.
Classmates.com in 1995. This
site’s goal is to help its With Friendster, you can invite
members find, connect, keep in and add as many friends as you
touch, and form a network with want. You can also upload photos,
friends and acquaintances from write blogs and reviews,
preschool through college, from instant-message other members
work, or from the military. from your network, and form
online groups with those who
Unlike other networking sites share the same interests as you
that gained popularity in recent have.
years, Classmates.com uses real
names instead of screen names. At present, Friendster’s social
It also has a rigid privacy network has more than 40 million
policy - the contact information registered users. Until around
of the member is never revealed April 2004, Friendster was on the
within the network unless top lead among dozens of other
social networking sites. MySpace they all allow users to expand
overtook Friendster in terms of their network by inviting friends
page views, and many other social or acquaintances and to share
networking sites like Multiply information over the Internet.
and Hi5. When you post blogs or files in
your account, everyone from your
MySpace is one of the most network of friends will be
popular websites in the Internet informed of the update through
these days. Just like Friendster, RSS feeds. You also have the
it allows you to collect a option to keep a particular post
network of friends and share private to just a few individuals
blogs, photos, music, and videos in your network.
with them. This social
networking website is very much Social networks are the best way
popular on English speaking to increase the number of people
countries, while most people from in which you are connected with,
Asia prefer to use Friendster. so if you are into business, you
MySpace already has more than a might as well get yourself into
hundred million members in 2006. social networking to promote your
product and increase your sales.
The two major search engines,
Google and Yahoo!, have launched You can choose from hundreds
their own social networking sites social networking websites
- orkut and Yahoo! 360°. Most available in the web today.
blogging sites also allow you to However, you might prefer to use
create a network of friends a particular networking site in
online. which a lot of your personal
friends and contacts are already
The thing is, most social members. In this way, it’s much
networking sites work similarly – easier for you to expand your
network and share the contents of
your site to other users.
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