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Social Networks
How do they work?
Do you use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter,
Friendster or Linkedin? If so, then you are
part of a social network. Social networking
sites allow us to see our social connections.
network to see it. The next step is to search the
We can see our friends and their friends
network for your contacts, browse for new ones and
through pictures and links in a user-friendly
add them to your network. You can invite offline
interface.
friends to join by email or search for friends who are
already signed up by name, school, or workplace.
When you create a profile on a social networking
Then you can search your friends' connections for
site, you open up a huge range of possible social different social networking sites allow people ata
anyone else you'd like to add to your network.
connections. You can look up old friends, make new
friends and share music, photos and videos with
interact in different ways There are straightforward
them. You can also join groups based on your
sites that allow you to expand your personal
interests or hobbies, favourite TV shows or music.
community such as Facebook. Then there are ones
Setting up a social networking account is simple. You
that involve media sharing, such as YouTube,
just create and post a personal profile. For this you
where members upload and look at other people's
need a login name, password and an email account.
pictures and videos. (There are also ones that
Then you add some personal information such as
specialise in sharing music, such as Last.fm, and
name, age, sex, location, interests, etc. You can also
finally, ones that allow bloggers to form online
communities, such as Livejournal.
add a photo of yourself. You can personalise your
profile and share as much information about yourself
The latest trend in social networking is to create your
as you want. You can also control who sees your
own independent social network. Companies do this
to promote their brand and individuals can do it to
profile. For example, you can make sure that you only create a very tight-knit community. 7
allow the friends that you have added to your
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