A social network service focuses on building online communities A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as newsletters, telephone, email, internet social network service or instant messages rather than face to face, for social, professional, educational or other purposes. If the mechanism is a computer network, it is called of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based In software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. It is also a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email, e.mail or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail and instant messaging Instant messaging is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via devices connected over a network such as the Internet services.
The main types of social networking services are those which 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. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the and Twitter Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of widely used worldwide; MySpace MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, which is owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was and LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of October 2009[update], LinkedIn had more than 50 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide being the most widely used in North America;[1] Nexopia Nexopia.com is a popular Canadian social networking website based in downtown Edmonton which was created by Timo Ewalds. It is designed as a general interactive site for people aged 14 and up, but the age limit recently was lowered to 13. Users are able to create and design their own profiles, friends list, blogs, galleries, articles, and forums (mostly in Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area and its common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the world's longest);[2] Bebo Bebo, an acronym for "Blog early, blog often", is a social networking website, founded in January 2005. It can be used in many countries including Ireland, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. A Polish version was launched recently, which uses a different user database. There are plans for French,[3] Hi5 Hi5 is a social networking website. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO. As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members, StudiVZ StudiVZ is a social networking platform for students , based in Berlin, Germany. The name is an abbreviation of the German expression Studentenverzeichnis, which means students' directory (mostly in Germany Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south), iWiW iWiW is a Hungarian social networking web service started on April 14, 2002 as WiW (Who Is Who). As of 2007 August[update], it has 2,6 million registered users with real names. The site is invite-only. Every user can provide personal information such as the place they live in, date of birth, schools and universities they attended, workplaces, (mostly in Hungary), Tuenti Tuenti is a Madrid-based, invitation-only private social networking website that has been referred to as the "Spanish Facebook." Tuenti, pronounced in Spanish, sounds like Twenty in English. The name, however, actually comes from "tu enti[dad]," meaning "your entity." The site is targeted at the Spanish audience, and (mostly in Spain), Decayenne Decayenne is an invite-only online social network service founded in 2001 in Düsseldorf by Phillip Eissing, Alexander Eissing, Marco Schierhorn and Ioannis Voudouris. Its member pool aims at exclusivity and is composed of mostly Europeans and Americans. Though primarily a website, the Decayenne community meets offline in both official and, Tagged Tagged.com is a social networking site founded in 2004. Tagged is the subject of numerous customer complaints for sending deceptive bulk mail and is regarded as a phishing and spamming site and an "E-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud advocates. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, XING XING is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company operating it claims that it is used by people from over 200 countries. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian. By;[4], Badoo Badoo is a multi-lingual social networking website, often referred to as British based, but actually owned by an offshore company in Cyprus. In a Cambridge University report, it was given the lowest score for privacy among 45 social social networking sites examined[5] and Skyrock Skyrock.com is a social networking site offering its members a free, personal web space where they can create a blog, add a profile, and exchange messages with other registered members. The site also offers a specific space for members who create blogs showcasing their original musical compositions in parts of Europe;[6] Orkut Orkut is a free-access social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten and Hi5 Hi5 is a social networking website. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO. As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members in South America South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the and Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. Most of Central America is considered to be part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot;[7] and Friendster Friendster is a privately owned social networking website. Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users may share videos, photos,, Mixi mixi, Inc. is one of several SNS (social networking service) sites in Japan. As of May 2008, mixi had over 10 million users and an 80% share of the social networking market in Japan. Founded by Kenji Kasahara, under E-Mercury, Inc. (actually Mixi, Inc.), Multiply Multiply is a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media - such as photos, videos and blog entries - with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and is privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors, Orkut Orkut is a free-access social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten, Wretch Wretch is a Taiwanese community web site; in Chinese, its name means Anonymous Lil' Site or Nameless Lil' Station. It is the most well-known blog community in Taiwan with thousands of users registered. Wretch provides free album, blog, and bbs hosting services. Four languages, including English, are available. A more extensive VIP version is, Xiaonei The Renren Network , formerly known as Xiaonei Network (Chinese: 校内网; literally "on-campus network") is a Chinese social networking site with an interface similar to that of Facebook. It is popular among college students in China and Cyworld Cyworld is a social networking website launched on Sep 1, 1999. Cyworld is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications (Hangul: SK커뮤니케이션즈), a subsidiary of SK Telecom (Hangul: SK텔레콤). Literally translated, "Cy" could mean "cyber", but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship ( in Asia and the Pacific Islands and Areapal in India.
There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF FOAF is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe him or herself. FOAF allows groups of people to describe social networks without the need for a centralised database standard and the Open Source Initiative The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors), but this has led to some concerns about privacy.
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Q. For what purpose do you use social networking? What site do you like the best and why? If you don't like something, what would you do to make it better of you could?
Asked by Andy's Place - Mon Dec 8 21:01:55 2008 - - 1 Answers - 2 Comments
A. Facebook, in my opinion. I mainly use it to keep in touch with my friends back home. It's just a little more grown-up than MySpace and I'm not even sure what the other social-networking sites are. If I had it my way, there would be no more apps.
Answered by Kett S - Mon Dec 8 21:10:12 2008
