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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 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 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 not face to face 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 participants, decides when
            to stop discussion as well as approving the comments or articles of participants before they
            are posted on the newsgroup page.

            Discussion can be on related to computer, technology, news science, entertainment, movie, 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 like a detailed explanation on a subject or sometimes also as 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 blog in present days.

            While blogging, you must keep in mind that your posts must not hurt feelings and reputation of

            others. Some of the popular websites which allow you to create blogs are Blogger, Wordpress,
            Tumblr, etc. Let us learn how to create a blog on Blogger website.

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