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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 friend list. You can post your views and ideas as well as see posts of your friends
                 and friend’s friends.
                 Newsgroup

                 In online community, 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 of a newsgroup. All
                 the participants put their comments or views on the topic as well as on the comments or views of
                 other participants. In this way, a non face-to-face discussion on a topic is 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 the participants, decides when to stop discussion as well as approves
                 the comments or articles of participants before they are posted on the newsgroup page.
                 Discussion can be related to computer, 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 can be also act as a source of information on a topic at one place.
                 Blogs

                 Blogs are generally a detailed explanation on a subject or sometimes also a 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, 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 blogs in present days.

                 While blogging, you must keep in mind that your posts must not hurt the feelings and reputation
                 of others. Some of the popular websites that allow you to create blogs are Blogger, Wordpress,
                 Tumblr, etc. Let us learn how to create a blog on Blogger website.

                 To create a blog on Blogger website, follow these steps:
                 Step 1  Open  www.blogger.com  website.  The  home page  of
                         Blogger website appears.
                 Step 2  Click on SIGN IN link at top-right corner. This will open

                         the Sign in page of Blogger website. To register yourself
                         with Blogger website, you must have a Gmail account or
                         you need to create a new account.
                 Step 3  Enter  your  e-mail address and  then click on the  Next

                         button.
                 Step 4  Enter your password and then click on the Next button.              Creating an account
                         The  Welcome to Blogger  page  appears  asking you  to
                         enter the display name.



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