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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.
                 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 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 in hard copy,
                 e-greeting is in 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

                 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 and 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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