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l Information transmission: Many websites, especially those that act as libraries of information, i.e.,
search engines apply multimedia features to enhance legitimacy.
l Presentations: Many organizations apply multimedia features to prepare presentation for business
affairs, like marketing, sales, trade shows, promotion of new products, etc.
l Visualization: Features of multimedia help to sketch or design shapes out of imagination on
unforseen disasters like flood, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc.
CHAT SITES
Chat Sites is a feature of Internet that enables instantaneous transmission of messages from the sender to
receiver on Internet. Many chat applications enable transfer of audio chat, video calling, sharing desktops,
etc. apart from the standard text chat. Chatting is widely used for the personal as well as commercial use.
Unlike email, chatting takes place in real-time and the response from the participants are spontaneous. If
the receiver is online, message is received concurrently while it is sent.
In ‘Chat’ messaging services, text messages can be sent to one or more persons at a time and the message
history is also recorded.
To use Chatting application, a user must have his/her account. To chat in group, participants must login
through the same Chatting application. Some Chatting applications such as Google Chat, Facebook
Messenger, Skype accepts email addresses to login & manage the account whereas Whatsapp, Telegram
use standard names and mobile numbers as identification for login.
There are two kinds of Chat applications:
l Application based: It can be used by downloading and installing its app on the host computer.
Some of the popular instant messaging apps are Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, etc.
l Web based: It can be accessed by using the web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google
Chrome, etc. Some of the popular web based instant messaging apps are Facebook, Whatsapp Web,
IMO etc.
General etiquettes that should be followed while chatting are:
l Keep the messages short.
l Always introduce yourself by name.
l Check the user’s availability (through status) before chatting.
l Be specific to the discussion while chatting in a business environment.
l Avoid to type the message in uppercase, as it is considered rude or equivalent to shouting.
l Give the user sufficient time to respond.
l Properly close the chatting session.
SOCIAL NETWORK
Society is a community of people who are linked to each other through some kind of common platform.
In computer, social networking refers to a network of several people interacting through computing device
around the world on the internet. It is the network of people who form communities among themselves to
share sentiments, relationships, ideas, topics of common interest, etc. These people may be linked to each
other because of some common association or a platform (like, students of same school, member of same
club, associate of same trade, etc.), that they may have shared in the past or are planning to join in future.
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