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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 Twitter. 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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