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SOCIAL NETWORKING ON THE NET

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Social networking sites make possible to find your old pals in the internet. People from different parts of the globe are using those sites to keep relation with old fellows from their childhood. New friends are also obtainable in the social websites. Some of the Social networking sites are to be found among the top 100 Websites in the world. MySpace is one of the biggest storage of data regarding friends’ information, powered by Cisco. It was initiated in 2003, by two American friends, Chris DeWolfe and Tom Andersen. In 2005, it became a US$580 million company and owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

MySpace is all-in-one for Social networking. Here, you can share all kind of Medias like image, video, and voice everything, with your friends using the same account, in MySpace. Only knowing copy and pasting of HTML code, anyone can easily edit his profile. You can easily make you own friend list including a default friend, Tom Andersen. MySpace TV helps you to share your home made video with your old friends. If your video is a hot one in a particular category like sport, entertainment or travel then it’ll gets a good publicity. MySpace is also available in different language like Chinese, Japanese and French.

Love it or hate it, Orkut is India’s most popular Social network. Apart form India; Brazilians are most affectionate with Orkut to get their buddies. The name Orkut is coming from a Turkish Technologist’s name. He is Orkut Buyukkokten and he is employed by Google in 2004. With the help of the bulk Asian and Brazilian fans, Orkut is now a big player in Social networking market. It is now a nearest competitor of MySpace and Facebook. Orkut’s technical environment is very friendly for the beginners. The Orkut’s members get a good number of fans, who want to be famous as a bloggers. The youngsters are using their laptops to open an account in Gmail.com and getting the Orkut membership very easily for quick popularity.

To find your college friend, the best Social networking site is Facebook. A valid college or University email ID is necessary to get a Facebook account. In this way, the site obtain more than 28 millions membership from different higher educational instituted around the world. After this achievement, the site also invites high schools and junior colleges in their institution list. In India, the students from the top educational instituted, like IIMs and IITs are members of Facebook. So, overall good brains are sharing their thoughts and views. Exploring the site is also informative for the gust visitors, who are not a member of Facebook.

In all cases, the basic Idea is same and it is the sharing the memories and living in touch of friendship. Highlighting yourself is not the only cause to become a member of a social networking website. Exchanging the views and thoughts, we can ensure a better communication. Next time, when someone sends you an invitation in your inbox to become a member of his Facebook or MySpace group, don’t delete the massage. After all, man is a social animal and he wants his friend in the space also.

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