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                                                                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.

                                Clickipedia



                     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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