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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 online community, newsgroup is the title given to a discussion group. A newsgroup focuses
                 on a particular topic. The topic is of general interest of all the participants to the newsgroup. It is
                 like Bulletin Board where all the participants can put up their comments or views on the topic as
                 well as on the comments or views of other participants. In this way, a 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 the participants. He decides when to stop a discussion
                 as well as approve the comments or articles before they are posted on the newsgroup page.

                 E-Greetings

                 An e-greeting is just like a paper greeting card. The
                 only difference is that it is created with the help
                 of digital text and effects. While paper greeting
                 card is a hard copy, e-greeting is a soft copy. This
                 means that you can see an e-greeting on your
                 monitor but you cannot touch it. E-greetings are
                 sent anytime through e-mails, thus saving paper
                 and trees. The animation effects and music along with still images and text makes a greeting
                 look awesome. Some of the popular  e-greetings websites are  www.123greetings.com,
                 www.e-cards.com, etc.
                 The sender of the e-greeting sends a link of the e-greeting to the receiver and the receiver needs
                 to click on that link to view the e-greeting in his web browser.

                    Info Byte

                     The first e-greeting card website was created by Judith Donath in December 1994. It was
                     named the Electric Postcard. It was started with 10-20 e-cards a day and reached 19,000
                     e-cards a day in December 1995.

                 E-Banking

                 Electronic banking (e-banking), also known as online banking or internet banking, is a digital
                 service that allows customers to manage their finances online. The technology has paced many
                 steps. We can now transfer money online from one bank account to another. In earlier days,
                 cheques were used to transfer money. It took 2-3 days for the clearance of cheques. If cheques
                 were spoiled, mutilated or lost then the transfer took more time as a fresh cheque was required
                 again. With e-banking, you can transfer funds easily from one account to another through a
                 computer, laptop and even your smartphone.
                 ATM facility is also a part of e-banking where you can withdraw cash from any of the ATM
                 machines and the amount will be debited from your bank account automatically.
                 E-banking is useful for bankers as well as customers. The bankers are benefited by way of:

                 •  Less transaction costs                          •  Less chances of human error


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