Online Social Networking

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Online Social Networking
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What is online social networking?
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Online Social Networking is like an online
community. Its a place where people can share
their interests with others, make new friends and
have fun.
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It focuses on building social networks among
people. An online social network site offers its
users a place to post their profiles and to share
ideas, activities, events, and interests with
others.
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Most important of all, it provides a way for
users to interact with each other, such as the
instant messages. The classic examples are
Facebook and Twitter.
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• It was founded
• by Mark Zuckerberg
• in February 2004.
• At that time, Mark was a sophomore in Harvard
  University.

Mark Zuckerberg
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• Initially, the website was used to put Harvard
  students photos and information for them to know
  each other quickly.

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• Therefore, the membership was limited to Harvard
  students.
• But gradually it was expanded to other college
  students, and finally, to anyone who has an
  e-mail address.

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Users can create their own profiles with photos,
personal interests, and any other information.
Furthermore, they can update their profiles to
notify friends about themselves.
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Users can use the Friend Finder tool to find
their friends on Facebook, and they can also add
people as friends and send them messages.
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Besides, there are a lot of interesting games for
users to play, such as the popular game
applications Happy Harvest and Farmville.
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It is a microblogging service. It enables its
users to post their instant messages on their
page. In addition, they can read and reply other
users' messages. These messages are called tweets.
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Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 English
characters or 70 Chinese characters. Tweets are
visible to everyone however, you can also
restrict message delivery to your friends.
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Users can make a subscription to other authors
tweets. This is known as following and
subscribers are known as followers.
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• Have you ever used any one of the online social
  networking devices?

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• What do you often do on it?

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• What do you think is the best part of online
  social networking?

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• If your mom adds you as her
• friend, you will

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