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You all must have heard about Facebook, the most popular social networking service. Some
other gaining popularity are Tumblr, Instagram, LinkedIn and X. These social networking
websites are also used as a marketing
hub. They are an immense store of
knowledge and information as
experiences of people from across the
world are shared. However, these
services are generally considered a
source of distraction from education for
students.
The most popular social networking
service, Facebook looks like this. Facebook
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 friends' friends.
Newsgroup
In the 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 face-to-face discussion on a topic
is not done. Generally, there is one person known as the News Admin who manages the
newsgroup. The News Admin keeps a check on the comments of participants, decides when
to stop discussion, and approves the comments or articles of participants before they are
posted on the newsgroup page.
Discussion can be on any topic related to computers, technology, news, science, entertainment,
movies, social issues, media, religion, politics, music, art, education, etc. The newsgroup can
be general as well as area-specific. Newsgroups also act as a source of information on a topic
in one place.
Blogs
Blogs are generally like a detailed explanation on a subject or sometimes also as an online 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 of posting, 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.
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