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Abstract: A social network site focuses on building and reflecting social networks or social relations among people who share the same interests and activities. Such sites essentially consist of user profiles, social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network site are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. These sites are individual centered whereas online community services are group centered. The basic aim of this article is to find out the social network sites that are most commonly used by Internet audience. And how increasing the popularity of the social network sites last few years.
Keywords: Social Network, Social Networking Sites, Popularity, History, Importance.
1. Introduction
Social network sites are also called `social networking sites' to emphasize relationship initiation, often among strangers. The social networking websites have evolved as a combination of personalized media experience, within social context of participation. The practices that differentiate social networking sites from other types of computer-mediated communication are uses of profiles, friends and comments or testimonials-profiles are publicly viewed, friends are publicly articulated, and comments are publicly visible (Boyd, 2007).
The first social network site, SixDegrees.com, was launched in 1997. Social networking websites provide rich information about the person and his network, which can be utilized for various business purposes. Social networking websites is also one of the social media tools. Which can be used as a tool in education industry to generate on line traffic for new entrants? The use of these websites is growing rapidly, while others traditional online is on the decrease. Social network user numbers are staggering, vastly increasing the exposure potential to education industry through advertising industry. The popularity of 'Twitter' has increased 347 percent over the past year, with 4.7 million users. My Space has over 11.4 million users through mobile services. Face book, the world's most popular social networking service, reached 500 million users on 23rd July, 2010 from about 400 million in February, 2010.
1. 1 Importance of Social Network sites
Social network sites provide rich information about the person and his network, which can be utilized for various business purposes. Some of the main importances of social networking sites are:
* They act as...