Social networking Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Social networking describes the process of connecting individuals via friends, relatives, and acquaintances--a person's "personal network." These networks can then branch out and allow friends to connect with people inside their accepted social circle, allowing for a perceived greater sense of security, compared to someone perceived as being anonymous and random.

Social networking has emerged as a phenomenon in 2003, allowing the newly-populous Internet to serve as both a buffer and a safety net for introduction to friends by friends once possible only in person.

This type of social interaction on the Internet is a logical extension of the blog and Instant Messaging phenomena: blogs allow for a more community of personal inquiry and thought while IM systems allow for only accepted users to chat. There are hybrids, however, such as the concept of FriendBlogs, which combines social networking with blogging.

Table of contents

1 Being choosey 2 See also 3 External links 3.1 Examples of social networking systems, otherwise known as YASNS 3.2 Other

Being choosey

Some users of networking systems choose friends quickly and seemingly indiscriminately. However, previous authors have recommended users of such systems be more choosey: picking only persons they know and trust.

See also

• Chat client
• Social network

External links

Examples of social networking systems, otherwise known as YASNS

• Social Networking Services Meta List

• Barnraiser -- open source social networking software.
• bigcampus.net -- A social network designed by college students for college students.
• CanYouConnect.com -- A social networking service that allows you to create personal, professional, and private networks (photos, blogs, calendar, chat, instant messenger, personal web page, file space, and much more).
• The Social Service -- An easy way for people in London to be able to meet up and socialise with groups of likeminded people, to meet new people and make new friends in the city. On the basis of eg. common interests, ages, outlooks, cultures etc.
• CityVox -- the French take up the Scandinavian challenge with this multilingual city guide (Hint: if you're travelling, you can earn cash by penning articles for them). They recently added a community feature. Been around for years and appears to have a sound business model. Mais oui, mais oui...
• Doostang -- trusted professional network with job postings.
• eConozco -- Social Networking for spanish speaking professionals (spain and latam). But how do you enter? Fluent Spanish speakers are baffled...
• eGrupos -- Integrates social networking tools with email groups/mailing lists (like YahooGroups but with more features) including group calendar, events, polls, etc. as well as auctions and buy-it-now ads. Just for their email groups they're worth a visit, and if you're tired of YahooGroups, this might just be what you were looking for.
• Friends in the City-- London Social Network ;Making friends in London just got a whole lot easier!
• Friendster -- a social networking website. (Wikipedia article on Friendster)
• FriendSurfer.com -- socially networked blogs, moblogs, bookmarks, rating, and photos.
• Funchain.com -- socially networked blogs, or FriendBlogs that connect posts made by users.
• Huminity -- a social networking downloadable client that requires less work by the server. This allows them to handle growth better than Friendster but the program is not cross-platform; available only for Windows.
• kibop -- Social networking for Hispanics worldwide, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
• Linkedin -- professional social networking website... bit of an online address book really... some extremely big players use this site as a matter of course.
• Meetup -- an online portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world.
• Multiply -- Web publishing (photo albums, blogs, calendar) combined with social network-based messaging.
• Muvuca -- a social networking website for brazilians.
• NetQI -- A brazilian social network very similar to Orkut
• .node -- .node wish to create a worldwide friendship network without any language barrier.
• Open Business Club -- a highly multilingual social network. openBC describes itself as a business tool. Currently offering services in English, German, Spanish, French, Portugese, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish. They have announced Russian, Chinese and Japanese services.
• Orkut -- an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends.
• ReferNet -- A business to business networking community for entrepreneurs and service vertical industries (i.e. real estate, insurance, financial services, service providers, etc...).
• Shortcut -- global, Swedish language online community. The front end is largely the same as it was when launched all those years ago. As of 03/10/04 it is (finally) having another face lift! Shortcut is one of about 20 sites that run on Netstar's StarCommunity platform... gold membership costs about twenty bucks a year. Ouch!
• SpurIntoAction Social Networking with the emphasis on Socialising with real people at real events
• StumbleUpon -- a web discovery service which integrates peer-to-peer and social networking principles with one-click blogging.
• Tribe.Net -- a smaller online social network based in San Francisco and focussed on like mindeded people.
• Wallflowerz.com -- an online social network that pays users for helping people meet and when people want to meet them.
• WorldDJ.com -- An electronic dance music, DJ and clubbing website with social networking functionality (social networking section currently by invite only).
• Yelp! -- search for local services, recommendations through your friends.

Other

• 'Social network analysis' -- the mapping and measuring of social networks.
• SoNetNews -- a news site that aggregates news articles relating to social networking sites
• College Social Networking -- a college social networking site focused on making connection via friends

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