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[L399]List Social Networking Websites

by Almir Dizdarevic, Alm

Like Myspace, Friendster is another popular social networking website founded by Jonathan Abrams in Mountain View, California. The techniques, on which this privately-owned social networking site is based, are mainly Circle of Friends and Web of Friends. Using those techniques, individuals are joined in a network of virtual communities. As per the latest record, the network has 50 million registered users. Friendster has a traditional Chinese site too, existing as a part of the main Friendster URL. The users of Friendster can also have video pages in their profiles from various sources like YouTube, Grouper, Sharkle, and many other video sites.

The site is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and individual investors. The main aim of Friendster is to help the users to keep in touch with old friends while getting new friends of same wavelength. People of the age of 18 and above choose to register with Friendster to get in touch with friends, family, school, groups, activities and interests. Friendster is popular because it delivers a clean, user-friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world. There are websites where one can find several customized Friendster layouts and Friendster background that he or she can use in his or her own profile. Along with these, Friendster also offers customization layout and background for the users that make the site more attractive to the users as well as the viewers.

Friendster also boasts of a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking. Friendster was awarded with a patent in 2006 based on its 16th June 2003 application of a method and apparatus of calculating and displaying on social network. The system that is effective in the network is a combination of Circle of Friends and Web of Contacts. It collects descriptive data about several individuals and also points out other persons with whom they share personal relationships. The descriptive data and the relationship data are integrated and processed to reveal the series of social relationships with which any two individuals within a social network is connected. The users can even see the pathway that connects two individuals. A user can also determine the optimal relationship path with which he/she reaches the desired individual. There is also a communication tool with which a person in the system is introduced and can have direct communication.

Friendster is considered to be one of the top online social networks and was, in fact, the most popular of its kind for quite sometimes; until the market was divided after the arrival of Myspace and it overtook Friendster as far as page viewing is concerned. Recently, the social networking websites have been facing competitions from some other networks of its kind like Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook and newer sites like hi5. Google offered $30,000,000 to buy out Friendster in 2003, but the authorities turned down the offer. Associated Press claims that the rejection is often considered as one of the biggest blunders in the Silicon Valley.

Users know that the websites are only as interesting as who is on them; that is why social networking website users often become advocates to non-users. Users now have the ability to login. It is time to extend the login by allowing the application to remember the user. Users can submit stories and they may be published after editors approve it. A popular site can send a large amount of traffic.

Sites that do not provide this option usually give you a URL that includes a series of numbers, letters and symbols that are difficult to remember. Sites that are designed to highlight success and which reward people succeeding set up a strong social learning dynamic. Sites also vary in the extent to which they incorporate new information and communication tools, such as mobile connectivity, blogging, and photo/video-sharing.

Members can view each others' profiles, share photos, write movie and TV reviews, join interest groups, post diaries (blogs), engage in discussions, shop online and post classifieds. Members can also create groups that allow them to interact with others who have common interests or backgrounds, such as school, company or hobbies. Website where membership has wandered should be looking to move them to another network. I definitely think something like E2 is the way to go in lieu of the classic intranet.

Online social networking websites are like online communities. They give internet users an easy and fairly safe way to come together. Online, you should be able to find a number of websites that discuss such sites. Many of these websites have reviewed a collection of these sites.

Personally, for this list, I really want to collect the narrow band. I want to know who these people are because all too often, academia is such that we don't know who is also doing work on the precise site that we are studying. Personal information includes pictures, names and addresses, schools they attend, cell and phone numbers and many other less obvious things, such as the name of their school team, ethnic background and even a mall near your house. We can help you if things go wrong online, or you just have questions.

Web site operators also must establish and maintain reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal information they collect. The testimony noted that the FTC staff currently is investigating several social networking Web sites to determine whether they are complying. Websites are now evolving into offering practical help by users themselves. For example, a blood group application in Facebook for tracking down blood donors with specific blood types. Website should be developed in a way so that open social applications can be integrated easily.

Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that read the content on your website. That content is then used to rank your website with particular keywords.

Join in the fun and meet some new friends, and maybe some old friends too, or even for online dating by designing your own website style profile. Only with the public participation can a site be the greatest social networking community website! Joining a network is fine, assuming the people you know are linked to people you need. From what I have seen in the older demographics, members have extremely limited networks and don't do much work to expand them.

Copyright (c) 2008 Dock J Murphy

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