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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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