social networking
Social Networking is the term for sites who allow users to connect with their friends.
Each user has a page, with information about themselves that they can customise. When you find a friend, colleague or associate on the same site (at first you will often only see a basic summary of their detaisl) you can request to “add” them as a friend, once they accept you can see their full details.
The current leaders in the social networking field are facebook and myspace – largely similar in the way they allow users to share photos and video, leave messages and interact through online games and applications.
More importantly, sites like plaxo and LinkedIn are good business equivalants to these sites, allowing business people to connect and network on a global scale – they are largely still reffered to as “Social Networking” as the method they use is very similar.
LinkedIn allows you to make reccomendations that are visible on someones page and to see who they are connected to, to facilitate an introduction.
Please note – we will be frequently expanding this article as the technology grows.
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