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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Social networks

My this post is about social Networking site & specially Facebook, so before anything else I want you all to know following facts (If you know it already then that's good ).

*In America facebook is the second most popular site, second only to Google.

*Facebook was started by 3 Guys Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin moskovitz, in 2004. Now it has 400million users and about 70% of FB users are outside of USA. Mark zuckerberg himself has an page on Facebook.

*If Facebook.com was declared an country and its users citizens of Facebook, then the population of FACEBOOK country will be the 3rd   highest in the world, i.e. second only to China &; India.

*In 2008 FB had revenue of $300million.
If you want to get latest news & happenings related to Facebook visit www.allfacebook.com.
Facebook as you all may know is a Social Networking Site,and there is no need to say it is very very popular as well as successful (that's why its founder Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire). Facebook is not the only social networking site out there, in fact there are more than 100 such sites, but it is the most popular and successful one.Other notable social networking site are Myspace, LinkedIn, Orkut and Twitter etc. 
If you want to get the list of other such sites CLICK HERE

I am sure you all have heard of Twitter.com , This is a website that has shown tremendous growth, registered twitter accounts have grown more than 1500% (it means there are 1500 times more account) in last year. Now almost everyone is on twitter be it news channels, celebrities, magazines almost everyone. As you may have seen tweets are being shown on news channels.

 
According to me the most important reason behind the Gigantic success    of  social networking sites is the fact that we humans are social animals. it is  our basic necessity to communicate and socialize, and these sites let us  do exactly  that, we can stay in touch with our friends, we can find our old friends who are no longer in touch with you or you can make new friends from any part of the world.As Internet brought the world closer and made it smaller it was  Social Networking sites gave us a tool to get in touch with some otherwise unreachable people, For example now you can easily create an Twitter account and after that you can read know what your favorite Actor is feeling or thinking right NOW.

 Basically all social networking website let user communicate with other users in a more interactive & personal way other than that they also  let users do some or all of these things as well,

1:-They lets users create & maintain  online profiles that can be viewed by other users .
2:-  users can become  friend, fan or follower (whatever the term may be) of other users.
3:-User who are friends can create groups or communities where like minded guys/gals can meet.
4:-users can upload photos, music and videos.

Although all the social networking sites provide same services we all know that there are some which are liked my most(like Orkut in India & Brazil and facebook in the whole world), the reason of this is not very hard to understand if you youself try out few of them you will find some of them to be better than others.

Social networking sites are not just for fun there are infinite possibilities of what can be done one fine example was the My Obama campaign.
But the most important thing these sites do is that they bring people together & gives people a channel to stay in touch noi matter where they or we are.