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Facebook, Twitter etc. (the heart of every connection)


Its a regular page of life when many people report that their best friends are online connections - people they never saw or met. At one time I definitely would have been shocked by this and think those people are nutcases who without even knowing a person are friends (correction), close friends with them, but not any more. Actually I am one of those nutcases too, now that I have online friends that I have never met, that I talk to more than the real people around me. I wonder sometimes how did I change so drastically?

What is it about these sites that make you visit them everyday? We get so impatient or eager to know what is going on there. Just to update our status we flip through thousands of things that went on in a single day and yet post about almost all of them. How and why did it become such important in our lives?


As little as a ten year old we would have been correct if we considered Social Networking to mean going out with all your friends and meeting their friends and different people around but nowadays its definition is not even close. Social Networking is still about meeting people but not face to face, Internet plays the mediocre.

Groups of like minded people gather on Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Myspace and many more. On some of these sites you can even open a 'chat' option which allows you to instant message someone sitting at any corner of the world.



These sites gives you many options on what you want to do that day. Based on commonalities, these sites bring together people with common interests to discuss stuff like hobbies, education, politics, likes, dislikes, audios, vedios, etc. Especially for girls, you can gossip anytime you want and after you are done with it, quickly delete it as if you never said it. Its like the old skool pen friend that people used to have, the plus point here is you can have hundreds and thousands of pen friends and you won't even have to wait a week or a month to hear from them.



I have found many people asking me if Twitter was better or Facebook. Well, me being on both i cannot really choose, they both have their own good and bad feilds but yes, the number makes the difference.

In a research we found that Social Networking is now conquering the Web, and the two leaders in this growing market are Facebook and Twitter. Each site has built communities of millions of users and developers in just a few short years, and they are fighting each other to become the top destination for Web users looking to share information with friends and colleagues. Facebook, launched in February 2004, had 135.4 million unique visitors to its site in April 2010 for a whopping 3.2 billion total visits, according to Compete, an analytics firm. Twitter, launched in March 2006, lured 21.5 million unique visitors in April 2010 for 147.4 million total visits.

Facebook is clearly the most popular social networking site, and it trails only Google as the Internet site with the most visitors. If you don't count YouTube, the video sharing service, as a social network, then Twitter is firmly in second place. But you gotta choose what you like the most.


Nowadays more than how many good and regular friends you have on these sites it has become more of how many friends they show at your profile or how many followers you have. People tend to increase their numbers and i bet they do not even know half of them properly. We find different schemes at twitter like, ' Get 10,000 followers in just one day. CLick here!' or people just add others as friends on these social sites just for the show off sake. Do we all know how safe this is? How far can we trust a stranger?

Everything has its pros and cons, and here the cons are mostly the same. Since the medium allows you to be annonymus,some people use fake personas and act in a predatory manner towards the vulnerable. At the same time, there are many news reports of users alerting police of a medical or other emergency just by providing another users profile.

So the conclusion part is use the technology carefully and make the most of it.


Info source : networkworld.com












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