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About Social Networking
In the world of today, where everything is moving at such a rapid pace, people hardly find time for each other. Social networking websites are a great way for people to meet someone interesting and share the joys and sorrows of their own life. Websites like orkut, facebook and myspace are a great way for a person to find someone else and develop relationships. Sometimes, professional relationships also start up because of these websites only.
Social Networking Websites
There are a plethora of social networking websites like FriendFinder, MySpace, orkut, facebook,Yahoo! 360, Classmates and FriendWise existing now. There are some that focus on particular topics while some others do not. Some of the websites can have open membership while others allow membership to specific people only. Anyone can become a member of the former type of websites whatever his beliefs, hobbies and thought processes may be. Once you have become a member of any social networking website, you can create your own communities of members having similar interests and exclude others who do not share such passions.
Negative Side of Social Networking
There are many kinds of dangers associated with a social networking website and one of them is the leakage of personal information. You should be quite cautious while exchanging personal information with other people. The main purpose of creation of your profile on a social networking website is enjoyment. So, while exchanging any kind of information with strangers, make sure that you are applying your common sense and discretion. Exchanging information recklessly with other people can land you into trouble when someone turns out to be someone you did not expect him to be. There are many predators on the social networking website who have fake identities, claiming to be someone they are not. Sometimes, the profile of a person on a social networking website could also contain viruses.
Social Networking Usage
Your personal network could contain all those users who have the same line of interests or profession as you. Through out the world, millions of users are engaged in the activity on such websites and social networking has emerged as one of the most popular pastimes over the last five years. Girls have a penchant for logging on to such websites to find school and college friends and strengthen old relationships.
Boys, on the other hand make use of such websites for flirting purposes and get into new relationships.
According to a survey conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than fifty five percent of older American teens log on to such websites to while away their time. Older teens in the age group of 12-17 are bigger users of such websites. 46% of these users have posted fake information on their accounts. The reason why teenagers post fake information on their accounts is because they don’t want to reveal their true identities. There are also specific options on these websites for profiles. Out of all the users with profiles, the profiles of 66% users are not available to see for the other users.
Do we really have the time for more social networking sites?
So, after so many websites like orkut, twitter and facebook have come into existence, there is a question that do we need any more social networking websites like Bebo, Buzzfinder, Couchsurfing and Cozycot.
Although, some of these websites like Advogato, Broadcaster.com do not have a large user base as of now and many people do not have account on these websites, these websites are a good tool for you to locate your pals. For example, virb and imeem are quite popular social networking websites. Virb is popular because it is a quite a good looking website. It is also called the social network made entirely for designers. It is quite a small website so it is not as entertaining as something like facebook. The features of this website are minimal in nature. So, if you are looking for a website that does not offer much in term of user’s features, then Virb is the right choice. For all those, for whom Facebook has become too clogged up now, virb is an entertaining change. It also has the band pages just like MySpace.
Imeem is another social networking website that can be a great tool for many users who want some entertainment. This website offers all the opportunities to its users in terms of uploading songs, videos and photos. It’s a very entertaining website and users can expect dual functionalities of Facebook and Youtube. You can easily locate some friends with similar interests on such website who like the same videos and music artists like you. Also, since this website combines entertainment with social communication, it offers a very innovative utility to its users. Imeem has about 24 million users now.
Which Social Networking Website to Use?
So, it is for the user to decide what kind of a social networking website does he want for himself. A user can pick any website for himself from the plethora of websites that exist. His criteria can be the attributes of a website. The add friends or make friends feature of a website is very important for any user. The add friends feature involves sending of Emails to unknown people and making pals. A forum on the website where people can let out all the emotions of their heart is also important for a user. The find friends feature of a website can also affect its attractiveness for a certain user. If all such features are present in a website, then a user should pick such a social networking website over others.
Conclusion
Why users need websites other than orkut, facebook and twitter is due to the fact that its not enough anymore for any website to allow chatting with other users. Also, users want something more than uploading their own photos on a website. Now, users want more interactive features like blogs. Blogs are emerging as great communication tools on internet. Life on internet changes fast everyday with so much content getting uploaded, that users like something new everyday. A website that offers great blogging facilities to its users is bebo which stands for “blog early blog often”.
The users can delete, edit or do whatever they like to do with their blog. The blogs are kind of public diaries that allow users to share information with other people. They can make users know about the viewpoints of certain people without interacting with them. This is also necessary with the speed at which the social issues are emerging.
