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What is social networking?
Networking or grouping of individuals is known as social networking. Social networking is possible in a workplace, organization and in schools but it is most common in online. The popularity of online networking is more because there are millions of internet users who are looking for friendships and business relationships. |
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Leading Social Networking websites
People have always been forming groups irrespective of the era they belong to. This is the IT age, so there has to be some way of forming social groups and communicating through the Internet. We all use computers a lot now. It is a machine after all. So after spending an entire day with such a helpful gadget, we still feel the need of communicating with another person probably someone with similar interests. |
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Benefits of social networking
The aim of social networking is to develop online relationships through community building. Social networking helps people to share anything in common or different from each other. If the people with common taste or different taste are distributed in various locations, then social networking is helpful to maintain contacts with each other. |
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Business social networking
Social networking is very helpful to build the credibility of your business or any marketing initiatives. If you use social networking sites properly, then you can save lots of money and time for the promotion of your business. |
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Adult Dating Services
Adult Internet Dating Service is a dating system which allows individuals, couples and groups to make contact and communicate with each other over the Internet, usually with the objective of meeting friends or potential sex partners. The catch point of such sites is to appeal internet users that they can have a wider prospect of meeting singles, whom they possibly wouldn't meet in daily. |
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Facebook - A skyrocketing success story
Facebook today is undoubtedly the most popular Social Networking Site in the world and the second most popular site in the US after MySpace. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zukerberg, a Computer Science student of Harward with his room mates. Initially, the membership was restricted to the students of the Harward College and it operated as an Internal Service Provider (ISN), but within a month the membership was extended to students of Strandford.. |
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MySpace
MySpace is the most popular social networking site in the US and the second most popular social networking site after Facebook in the world. Owned by News Corp, MySpace was launched in 2002 and the first users were the employees of eUniverse. The site gradually expanded and went to head the chart of social networking sites. |
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Orkut
Orkut is a free to use social networking service, offered by google. It is most popular in countries such as Brazil and India . Launched in 2004, Orkut got its name from a Turkish software engineer - Orkut Büyükkökten. Initially the site had the largest user base in the United States but today Indians have the largest presence (23%) on Orkut as subscribers. |
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WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform as well as a content management system which offers easy to use blogging facilities to its users free of cost. Developed by Michel Valdrighi in 2003, WordPress is an open source system. |
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YouTube
Started in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the most preferred destination to upload, watch and share original videos worldwide through web. YouTube was started by 3 former PayPal employees and became popular quickly. In November 2006, it was taken over by Google for US$ 1.65 billion. |
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