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Some of the popular applications of the Internet are as follow:
Search Engine: It can be used to search anything on the web. The most popular search engines are Google
and Yahoo.
Hobbies: Those who have certain hobbies can try to improve on them by reading about many aspects of
their hobbies.
Research: Research papers are present online which helps the researcher with literature review.
Education: Now, right from kindergarten, an enormous amount of educational material is available on the
web. Online education has become the latest trend in today’s education system.
Communication: The Internet helps people to communicate either with the use of social networking
websites or through e-mails. Computer users around the world extensively use email services on the Internet
to communicate with each other.
Job Search: Nowadays, many people search for jobs online as it is quicker to approach and there is a large
variety of job vacancies present. People can publish their resumes online for prospective jobs. Some of the
websites providing this service are naukri.com, monster.com, summerjob.com, recuritmentindia.com, etc.
Shopping: Shopping has become easier with the advent of the Internet. It has also facilitated an introduction
of a new market concept consisting of virtual shops. Using internet services, customers can submit specific
product queries and request specific sales quotes. For instance, the internet site amazon.com allow users to
search for information on a variety of products and place online orders for a variety of them.
Travel: One can use internet to gather information about various tourist places. It can be used for booking
holiday tours, hotels, trains, buses, ights and cabs. Some of the websites providing this service are goibibo.
com, makemytrip.com, olacabs.com , etc.
Video Conferencing: It enables live face-to-face communication across networks via web cameras,
microphones and other communication tools. Video conferencing can enable individuals at distant locations
to participate in meetings on short notice, with time and money savings. When video conferencing is used in
education, it is easier to have interactive communication between teacher to teacher, teacher to classroom,
or classroom to classroom with students at different places.
e-Commerce: e-Commerce (Electronic Commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services, or
transmitting funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the Internet. These business transactions
occur either in business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-
business areas. Popular e-commerce companies in India are Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon India, Paytm, etc.
Social Networking: Social Networking is the use of internet-based social connections with friends, family,
classmates, customers and clients. Social Networking can be established for social purposes, business purposes
or both. These programs show the associations between individuals and facilitate the acquisition of new contacts.
Examples of social networking are Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Society is a community of people who are linked to each other on some common platform. Being social with
hundreds of people over the internet is social networking. In computers, social networking refers to a network
of hundreds of people around the world on the internet. It is the network of different people who form
communities among themselves to share sentiments, relationships, topics, ideas, etc., or topics of common
interest. These people may be linked to each other because of some type of common platform (like school,
college, etc.) among them that may have been in the past or in present or maybe in the future.
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