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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.
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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.




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