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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 organisations apply multimedia features to prepare presentation for business
                      affairs, like marketing, sales, trade shows, promotion of new products, etc.
                 l    Visualisation:  Features of  multimedia help  to  sketch  or  design  shapes  out  of  imagination  on
                      unforeseen disasters like floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, 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 chats, video callings, desktop sharing,
                 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 and 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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