So what really is a social networking site? Well, the simple answer is, a social networking service (SNS) is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
It’s a web-based service that provides a means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging and allows individuals to create a public profile, to create a network of followers/ friends with whom to share connections, and view and cross connect within the system to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, interests with people in their network.
Social network sites are varied and they incorporate new information and communication tools such as mobile connectivity, photo/video/sharing and blogging.
The main types of social networking services are those that contain category places such as the former school year or classmates, means to connect with friends and are usually found with self-description pages, and a recommendation system linked to trust.
Some of the more popular social networking sites are American-based services such as Facebook, Google+,LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, Tumblr, and Twitter are widely used worldwide; while others like Nexopia in Canada; Hyves (The Netherlands), Soup (Austria), Glocals in Switzerland, Skyrock, The Sphere, StudiVZ (Germany), Tagged, Tuenti (mostly in Spain), Myspace, Xanga and XING in parts of Europe; Hi5 and Orkut in South and Central America; just to name a few have large following in their respective countries and regions.
Getting started with a Social Networking Site is easy, all you have to do is CONNECT, start networking, invite your friends to follow you and encourage them to do the same.
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