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Social Networking

By :-

Vishal Thakur

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WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING ?

• A social networking is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting social networks or social relations among people who share interests and activities.

A social network service essentially consists of :

• a representation of each user (often a profile)

• his/her social links, and

• a variety of additional services.

The most popular social sites in India are :

•Facebook

•Twitter

•Youtube

•Orkut

•LinkedIn etc…

Social Connectivity

• Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

• Users are encouraged to create profiles containing various information about themselves.

• In recent years, it has also become common for a wide variety of organizations to create profiles to advertise products and services.

• To protect user privacy, social networks usually have controls that allow users to choose who can view their profile, contact them, add them to their list of contacts, and so on.

ADVANTAGES

• Low Costs

It's cheaper to use online social networking for both personal and business use because most of it is usually free.

• Connections

By using a social networking site one get connected with many people.

• Builds Credibility One can gain the customers confidence if

one can connect to them on both a personal and professional level.

• Medical Social networks are beginning to be adopted

by healthcare professionals as a means to manage institutional knowledge and to highlight individual physicians and institutions.

• Employment A final rise in social network is being driven

by college students using the services to network with professionals for internship and job opportunities

DISADVANTAGES

• Lack of Anonymity One puts information about his or her

name, location, age, gender, and many other types of information that one may not want to let others know.

• Scams and Harassment : There is a potential for failure of security in

both personal and business context. There might be cases of harassment, cyber-stalking, online scams, and identity theft.

• Time Consuming :

If one does not have any target then it would just be a total waste of time.

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