Social Networking Site!

What is it?

Social networking could be described as a group of individuals that have same interest or activities (workplaces, hometown, hobbies, etc) and they are likely to meet each other to gather and share their information and also experiences about their interest. Whilst online social networking service is a platform for them to gather and share their information and experiences virtually using the internet service. Websites, known as social sites are commonly used as these online social networking services. It is functioned as online community of internet users. They can develop friendship or professional alliances, finding employment, and even group sharing information by using this service. Once user starts creating a profile or account in this service, they can begin to socialize. This socialization may include observing of other’s profile or possibly contacting them with information provided.

How does it works?

1. Before starting, you need to have an account on the social networking site.
2. To create a profile (account), u will be asked to choose login name and password.
3. When u have your login name, u will be asked for your personal information like name, age, sex, location, relationship status and any hobby or special interest.
4. You can choose to personalize your profile with photo, video and music later (remember that this will presenting who are u in online world)
5. When u are done, u can start looking for friend and make connections either with existing user or u invite your friends by email.

What is the features of online social network?

1. most basic feature is the ability to create and share a personal profile like photo, some basic personal information (name, age, sex, location) and extra space for listing favorite bands, books, TV shows, movies, hobbies and Web sites.
2. most important feature of online social networks is the ability to find and make friends with other site members.
3. there are different rules and methods for searching out and contacting potential friends depending on the social networking site. For example,

• MySpace - you're allowed to search for and contact people across the entire network, whether they're distant members of your social network or complete strangers.
• Facebook - you can only search for people that are in one of your established networks.
• LinkedIn - allows you to search each and every site member, but you can only access the full profiles and contact information of your established contacts

Does social networking sites secure?

Hacking into social networks requires very little technical skill and it's much more of a psychological game which is to using information on personal profiles to win a complete stranger's trust. So, the more personal and professional information you include on your public profile, the easier it is for a hacker to exploit that information to gain your trust.