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Social NetworkThe Thing That Today’s World Depend On
By
Prateek S. Shetye
Bhavesh B. Pednekar
Prathamesh R. Prabhu
& Varad V. Sohani
Of First Year Mechanical,
Government Polytechnic Bicholim.
What is Social Network? The use of internet-based social media programs to make
connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients, is called Social Network.
Social networking can be done for social purposes, business purposes or both. The programs show the associations between individuals and facilitate the acquisition of new contacts.
Is There Need of Social Networking? Yes, there is a need. Social Networking bring many
people close and does business connections. It also connects the unknown persons to each other, which can lead to exchange of information worldwide. From spam messages, value education, scientific knowledge to business data and records, it can share almost everything. Today’s world cannot stand without it. A person in the world cannot stand even for one day without contacting other person. Even finding of one person’s life partner can be done through social networking.
How Is The Information Shared? Information in earlier days was sent through emails only.
Today vast numbers of websites are developed. They can share blogs, quotes, status, pictures, videos and even files too. This information can be shared worldwide or to restricted persons.
E-mail Safety There are some things that you should take in mind before
opening an e-mail. Do NOT open any emails from a source that you do not
recognise. You should be able to determine the sender’s name or subject and whether it is relevant for you.
If you do open an email and realise that it could be potentially dangerous, add the sender to your ‘blocked senders’ list. Do not reply to this email at all.
Do not respond to ANY email that claims to be from your bank. If a bank needs to contact you about your account, they will call you or send you a postal letter.
Ensure you have an anti-virus program that is up to date on the school network and at home.
If using a public computer, ensure you log out of your email website completely and close the internet browser.
And finally – that email from Nigeria claiming to give you $1 billion just for the privilege of using your account really is too good to be true! Delete, block and move on.
Some good things about Social Network
There are many good things about social network and some things to be taken in mind for betterness.
Follow people who are experts in their field, learn from others and stay up-to-date with the latest in your field.
There are many social networking sites that now cater for the Education System, that allow for secure networks where school communities can interact on many levels.
Reporters can find anything they want to research, only if it is leaked on net and can expose many criminals.
Researchers can get all the information they need to research on.
People can get all the things when they are sitting in one place.
Different Social Networking WebsitesThere are vast number of websites that are created by man.
Some of them are: Bebo Classmates Facebook Friendster Google+ LinkedIn Myspace Orkut Path
Pinterest StumbleUpon Tagworld Twitter Windows Live Spaces Youtube Instagram Vimeo Flickr Yammer
Tumblr. VK Vine Meetup Ask.fm Meetme
This are just some of the sites that can be used for social networking.
Bebo
Bebo was a popular social network website which was launched in 2005, used for writing blogs and sharing photos. It was closed due to some problem and now it has been relaunched as a mobile messaging app on mobile.
In this Bebo, one can make his own avatar which can show that person’s mood. It can also send messages update one’s statuses.
Its link is http://www.bebo.com/
Classmates Classmate was a social networking site found in 1995
which was used to find one person’s classmates. One can find any classmates on it now.
Its link is http://www.classmates.com/
Facebook is the most common and most popular website till now and more than 75% of the world’s population use it. It was established by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates and fellow from Harvard University.
Facebook allows to register anyone who is 13 years of age. It allows to share photos, videos, update statuses and location and to chat with friends. Also it brings many unknown persons closer.
Its link is http://www.facebook.com/
Friendster
The service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks. It is considered one of the original and even the "grandfather" of social networks.
Its link is http://www.friendster.com/
Google+
Google+ is a social network and social layer for google services that is owned and operated by Google Inc.
Approximately 540 million monthly active users make use of the social layer by interacting with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and YouTube comments. Some 300 million monthly active users participate in the social network, interacting with the Google+ social networking stream. But user engagement has been relatively low, averaging around 7 minutes per user per month.
Google+ is a website that can share almost everything to restricted friends or any persons. It can send larger files, videos, pictures, messages emails and so on.
This website also can connect many applications on mobile and save their data. This website may not be used often but it is the most essential for anyone having android mobiles.
The link to this website is http://plus.google.com/
Linked In
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million members. As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 259 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories.
The site is available in 20 languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, and Tagalog. As of 2 July 2013, Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 65.6 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 178.4 million globally.
The link to this site is http://www.linkedin.com/
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis, owned by Specific Media LLC and Justin Timberlake. Myspace was founded by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson and was launched in July 2003. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. The site also started the trend of creating unique URLs for companies and artists.
The link to this website is http://www.myspace.com/
Orkut
Orkut was a social networking website owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships.
An Orkut user can also add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users. There is an option to integrate GTalk (An instant messenger from Google) with Orkut enabling chatting and file sharing. Currently GTalk has been integrated in Orkut – users can directly chat from their Orkut page. Similar to Facebook, users may also use a "like" button to share interests with friends.
Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008. In 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.
The link to this website is http://www.orkut.com/
Path
Path is a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices, launched in November 2010. The service allows users to share with their close friends and family up to a total of 50 contacts.
Users update their stream on Path by posting photos and adding tags for people, places, and things.
Path limits each user's social network to 150 friends to encourage users to select only high-quality connections. Overall, the decision the company says was inspired by psychology research that suggests people have a maximum number of workable social contacts. The limitation, along with user controls over how to share each post, were designed to encourage greater sharing of personal information by keeping it private to a person's inner circle of social contacts. The site was intended as a companion to Facebook and other social network platforms, as opposed to a destination website.
Contacts are suggested from among persons in a user's electronic address book, as well as people with whom the user is communicating by email.
The link to this website is http://path.com/
Pinterest is a web and mobile application company, which operates an eponymous photo sharing website. Registration is required for use.[3] The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. It is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and investors.
Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images (known as pins) and other media content (e.g., videos and images) through collections known as pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform. Users can browse the content of others on the main page. Users can then save individual pins to one of their own boards using the "Pin It" button, with Pinboards typically organized by a central topic or theme. Users can personalize their experience with Pinterest by pinning items, creating boards, and interacting with other members. By doing so, the users "pin feed" displays unique, personalized results.
Content can also be found outside of Pinterest and similarly uploaded to a board via the "Pin It" button, which can be downloaded to the bookmark bar on a web browser, or be implemented by a webmaster directly on the website. They also have the option of sending a pin to other Pinterest users and email accounts through the "Send" button. Some websites include red and white "pin it" buttons on items, which allow Pinterest users to pin them directly.
The link to this website is http://www.pinterest.com/
StumblUpon
StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles.
StumbleUpon uses collaborative filtering (an automated process combining human opinions with machine learning of personal preference) to create virtual communities of like-minded Web surfers. Rating Web sites update a personal profile (a blog-style record of rated sites) and generate peer networks of Web surfers linked by common interest. These social networks coordinate the distribution of Web content, so that users "stumble upon" pages explicitly recommended by friends and peers. Giving a site a thumbs up results in the site being placed under the user's "favorites". Furthermore, users have the ability to stumble their personal interests like "History" or "Games".
Users rate a site by giving it a thumbs up, thumbs down selection on the StumbleUpon toolbar, and can optionally leave additional commentary on the site's review page, which also appears on the user's blog. This social content discovery approach automates the "word-of-mouth" referral of peer-approved Web sites and simplifies Web navigation.
The link to this website is https://www.stumbleupon.com/
Tagworld
TagWorld is a social tagging community that helps users find content by topic. The website revolves around a tagging system. Users can upload images and post comments. A search bar lets users browse by keyword. Users can also click buttons to access different types of content, such as blogs, links and photos. TagWorld gives the user an overview of all content related to a tag. Just like other social networks, TagWorld lets users establish a profile and add friends. Friends lists are displayed as images on the user’s profile page. The site has set a few ground rules for its users since activity relies so heavily on the actions of others. The rules are generally what most users expect to find in any forum or network and help keep TagWorld fun for all users.
Its link is http://www.tagworld.com/
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.
Tweets are publicly visible by default, but senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. Retweeting is when a tweet is forwarded via Twitter by users. Both tweets and retweets can be tracked to see which ones are most popular. While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Users may subscribe to other users' tweets – this is known as "following" and subscribers are known as "followers" or "tweeps", a portmanteau of Twitter and peeps. Users can check the people who are unsubscribing them on Twitter ("unfollowing") via various services. In addition, users can block those who have followed them.
Twitter allows users to update their profile via their mobile phone either by text messaging or by apps released for certain smart phones and tablets.
The link to this website is http://www.twitter.com/
Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform. The site was originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces to compete with other social networking sites, and re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand. Windows Live Spaces received an estimated 27 million (27,000,000) unique visitors per month as of August 2007.
Features of Windows Live Spaces included a blogging system, photo gallery, lists, friends, a guestbook, and a social profile. A Spaces page can be personalized with "gadgets", modules that can be placed to enable further customization, HTML code, and media playlists. Contact cards were also used in other Windows Live applications and services to summarize the recent content added to a Space. RSS feeds are also available for content on a space.
The link to this website is http://spaces.live.com/
Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via YouTube, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, and registered users can upload videos to their channels. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.
The link to this site is http://www.youtube.com/
Instagram (portmanteau of Instant Telegram) is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. Users can also apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.
Users can upload photographs and short videos, follow other users' feeds and geotag images with longitude and latitude coordinates, or the name of a location. Every year, Instagram released Top 10 Instagram geotagged locations in the world, in pictures. Users can connect their Instagram account to other social networking sites, enabling them to share uploaded photos to those sites. As of June 2013, users can connect their Instagram accounts to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.
The link to this site is https://instagram.com/#
Vimeo
Vimeo is another video-sharing website just like youtube in which users can upload, share and view videos. Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein.
The link to this website is https://vimeo.com/
Flickr
Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
Flickr offers three types of account: Free, Ad Free and Doublr. The free option includes one terabyte of storage limited to 200 MB per photo and 1 GB per video with maximum length 3 minutes. The Ad Free option allows subscribers to avoid advertisements for an annual fee. The Doublr account includes twice the storage of a free account. In May 2011, Flickr added an option to easily reverse an account termination, motivated by the accidental deletion of a Flickr user's account, and public reporting of its protracted restoration. Flickr may delete accounts without giving any reason or warning to the account's owner.
Before May 2013, Flickr offered two types of accounts, Free and Pro. Free accounts were limited in data storage, accessibility, and interaction. Pro accounts received unlimited bandwidth and storage, and allowed users to upload an unlimited number of images and videos every month. New Pro accounts are no longer offered, but old ones remain active, with no plans to retire them.
The link to this website is https://www.flickr.com/
Yammer
Yammer, Inc. is a freemium enterprise social networking service that was launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft in 2012 for US$1.2 billion.
Yammer is used for private communication within organizations and is an example of enterprise social software. The tool was originally developed as an internal communication system for the genealogy website Geni. Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain so that only individuals with appropriate email addresses may join their respective networks.
The link to this website is https://www.yammer.com/
tumblr.
Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.
Blog management Dashboard: The dashboard is the primary tool for the typical Tumblr
user. It is a live feed of recent posts from blogs that they follow. Through the dashboard, users are able to comment, reblog, and like posts from other blogs that appear on their dashboard. The dashboard allows the user to upload text posts, images, video, quotes, or links to their blog with a click of a button displayed at the top of the dashboard. Users are also able to connect their blogs to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, so whenever they make a post, it will also be sent as a tweet and a status update.
Queue: Users are able to set up a schedule to delay posts that they make. They can spread their posts over several hours or even days.
Tags: For each post a user creates, they are able to help their audience find posts about certain topics by adding tags. If someone were to upload a picture to their blog and wanted their viewers to find pictures, they would add the tag #picture, and their viewers could use that word to search up posts with the tag #picture.
HTML editing: Tumblr allows users to edit their blog's theme HTML coding to control the appearance of their blog. Users are also able to use a custom domain name for their blog.
The link to this website is https://www.tumblr.com/
VK
VK is the largest Russian social network in Europe. It is available in several languages, but is especially popular among Russian-speaking users, particularly in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Like other social networks, VK allows users to message each other publicly or privately, to create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and video, and to play browser-based games.
As with most social networks, the site's core functionality is based around private messaging and sharing photos, status updates and links with friends. VK also has tools for managing online communities and celebrity pages. The site allows its users to upload, search and stream media content, such as videos and music. VK features an advanced search engine, that allows complex queries for finding friends, as well as a real-time news search.
Messaging. VK Private Messages can be exchanged between groups of 2 to 30 people. An email address can also be specified as the recipient. Each message may contain up to 10 attachments: Photos, Videos, Audio Files, Maps (an embedded map with a manually placed marker) and Documents.
News. VK users can post on their profile walls, each post may contain up to 10 attachments – media files, maps and documents (see above). User mentions and hashtags are supported. In case of multiple photo-attachments the previews are automatically scaled and arranged in a magazine-style layout. The news feed can be switched between all news (default) and most interesting modes. The site features a news-recommendation engine, global real-time search and individual search for posts and comments on specific users' walls.
Communities. VK features two types of communities. Groups are better suited for decentralised communities (discussion-boards, wiki-style articles, editable by all members etc.). Public pages are a news feed oriented broadcasting tool for celebrities and businesses. The two types are largely interchangeable, the main difference being in the default settings.
Like buttons. VK like buttons for posts, comments, media and external sites operate in a different way from Facebook. Liked content doesn't get automatically pushed to the user's wall, but is saved in the (private) Favorites section instead. The user has to press a second 'share with friends' button to share an item on their wall or send it via private message to a friend.
Privacy. Users can control the availability of their content within the network and on the Internet. Blanket and granular privacy settings are available for pages and individual content.
Synchronization with other social networks. Any news published on the VK wall, will appear on Facebook or Twitter. Certain news may not published by clicking on the logo next to the button "Send". Editing post in VK does not change the post in Facebook or Twitter, and vice versa. But removing the news in the VK will remove it from other social networks.
SMS serves. Russian users can receive and reply to a private messages or leave a comments for community news using SMS.
The link to this site is http://vk.com/
Vine
Vine is a short-form video sharing service. Founded in June 2012, microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. The service lets users record and edit five to six-second-long looping video clips and revine, or share others' posts with followers. Some Vines are revined automatically based on what is popular. The videos can then be published through Vine's social network and shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos.
Vine enables users to record short video clips up to around six seconds long while recording through its in-app camera. The camera records only while the screen is being touched, enabling users to edit on the fly or create stop motion effects.
Additional features were added to the app in July 2013; these include grid and ghost image tools for the camera, curated channels (including themed areas and trending topics/users), the ability to "revine" videos on a personal stream, and protected posts.
In July 2014, Vine updated their app with a new "loop count" meaning every time someone watches a vine, a number on top of the video will appear showing how many times it was viewed. The "loop count" also includes views from vines that are embedded onto other websites.
The link to its website is https://vine.co/
Meetup
Meetup is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies. Users enter their postal code or their city and the topic they want to meet about, and the website helps them arrange a place and time to meet. Topic listings are also available for users who only enter a location.
The link to this website is http://www.meetup.com/
ask.fm
Ask.fm is a global social networking site where users create profiles and can send each other questions, with the option of doing so anonymously. The site was founded in Latvia and launched on June 16, 2010 as a rival to Formspring. It has since overtaken the latter in terms of worldwide traffic generated with 150 million monthly unique users as of March 2015. The site was purchased by Ask.com in August 2014 with the intention to "focus on turning around the philosophy of the company and putting trust and safety first." Since the acquisition, the company has made a number of changes toward its goal of improving the safety of its users. These include parting ways with Ask.fm founders, Mark and Ilya Terebin, whom Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds described as having a "laissez-faire" approach to safety and proactively partnering with the New York Attorney General and the Maryland Attorney General in the creation of a multi-step plan to turn the site around.
Ask.fm has since launched its first-ever Safety Advisory Board of which John Carr OBE, Anne Collier, Marsali Hancock, Dr. Brian O'Neill and Dr. Justin Patchin are board members, as well as a new Safety Center which includes specific tools, tips and guidance for teens, teachers, parents and law enforcement. In February 2015, under the direction of Chief Trust and Safety Officer Catherine Teitelbaum, Ask.fm sponsored its first Safer Internet Day and launched a #nobullies campaign to drive awareness of the company's no tolerance policy for abusive behavior on the Ask.fm service.
The link to the site is
meetme
MeetMe (formerly MyYearbook) is a social networking service founded in 2005. In June 2012, myYearbook was renamed MeetMe.
MeetMe includes a virtual economy through which members earn and spend "Lunch Money," the MeetMe virtual currency. Lunch Money enables members to "bid" on each other's photos, and own photos.
The link to this website is http://www.meetme.com/
How Can Social Networking Be Dangerous? The social networking can be dangerous in many ways.
By signing up on a social website, you are showing all your details to the world. Some bad people like terrorist or any of your enemies might get the information of where you live and your life can be in danger.
Online banking or sending private messages can be hacked easily by professional hackers resulting theft of bank balance and leaking of private messages, pictures and other top secret files, worldwide.
Children who are just new to the internet can learn many bad things when they are not under parents guidance and become criminals
Precaution Social Networking users need to be aware that
ANYTHING they write, post, upload or file leaves a DIGITAL IMPRINT in cyberspace. Even deletion of files on Social Networking sites does not mean that it is removed from that site, or that anyone else in the world has already downloaded it.
If you wouldn’t want it to be printed on newspaper…
Don’t put it online!
Thank You
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