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However, these services are generally considered as a source of distraction from education for
                  students. The most popular social networking service, Facebook looks like this.

                  It allows you to store a brief profile about yourself, your photos, likes and dislikes. It allows you to
                  maintain your friends list. You can post your views and ideas as well as see posts of your friends
                  and friend’s friends.
                  Newsgroup

                  In online community, newsgroup is the title given to a discussion group. A newsgroup focuses
                  on a particular topic. The topic is of general interest of all the participants to the newsgroup.

                  All the participants put up their comments or views on the topic as well as on the comments or
                  views of other participants. In this way, a discussion on a topic is done. Generally, there is one
                  person, known as News Admin who manages the newsgroup. The News Admin keeps a check
                  on the comments of participants. He decides when to stop discussion as well as approving the
                  comments or articles before they are posted on the newsgroup page.
                  E-Greetings

                  An  e-greeting is just like a paper greeting
                  card. The only difference is that it is created

                  with  the  help of  digital text  and  effects.
                  While paper greeting card is in hard copy,
                  e-greeting is in soft copy. This means that
                  you can see an e-greeting on your monitor
                  but you cannot touch it. E-greetings are sent
                  anytime through e-mails, thus saves paper
                  and trees. The animation effects and music
                  along with still images and text makes an
                                                                                       E-Greetings
                  e-greeting look awesome. Some of the popular e-greetings websites are www.123greetings.com,

                  www.egreetings.com, www.e-cards.com, etc.
                  The sender of e-greeting sends a link of the e-greeting to the receiver and the receiver need to
                  click on that link to view the e-greeting in his web browser.
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                   The first e-greeting card website was created by Judith Donath in December 1994. It was
                   named the Electric Postcard. It was started with 10–20 e-cards a day and reached 19,000
                   e-cards a day in December 1995.

                  E-Banking

                  The  technology  has paced  many  steps. We can  now  transfer  money  online from  one  bank
                  account to another. In earlier days, cheques were used to transfer money. It took 2–3 days for
                  the clearance of cheques. If cheques were spoiled, mutilated and lost then the transfer took more
                  time as a fresh cheque was required again. With e-banking, you can transfer funds easily from
                  one account to another through computer, laptop and even your smartphone.


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