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Chapter Profile
Facebook
It allows you to store a brief profile about yourself, your photos, likes and dislikes. It allows you to
maintain your friend list. You can post your views and ideas as well as see posts of your friends.
Newsgroup
In an online community, a newsgroup is the title given to a discussion group. A newsgroup focuses
on a particular topic. This topic is of general interest to all the participants in 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 non-face-to-face 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, decides when to stop discussion as well as approving the
comments or articles of participants before they are posted on the newsgroup page.
Discussion can be related to computer, technology, news science, entertainment, movie, social
issues, media, religion, politics, music, art, education, etc. The newsgroup can be general as well as
area specific. Newsgroups can also act as a source of information on a topic in one place.
Blogs
Blogs are generally like a detailed explanation of a subject or sometimes they are also used as a
Diary of Events. It is a discussion platform where the readers of the blog can add their comments
and suggestions. These posts are displayed in descending order of time, which means the latest
post is shown at the top.
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The term Blog was given by Peter Merholz in 1999, when he rearranged the words “Web
log” to read as “We Blog”. Dave Winer’s Scripting News is one of the oldest and the largest
running blog in present days.
While blogging, you must keep in mind that your posts must not hurt feelings and reputation of
others. Some of the popular websites which allow you to create blogs are Blogger, Wordpress,
Tumblr, etc. Let us learn how to create a blog on Blogger website.
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