A social network is nothing but building online social networks where communities are formed of people who sahre common thoughts, interests and activities, and finally end up in exploring the interests and activities of others’ interests…..People who are generally individuals or organizations are tied up in this social networks on the basis of relations, values, friendship, common interests, old school/ college tie ups, etc etc…
Most of the social networks are basically web based and various methods are used for interaction between the participants or the members of the social networks… such as chat rooms, messaging, emails, voice chatting, file sharing options, blogs, and forming discussion groups on a particular thread etc…
The new social network which are upcoming everyday gain popularity, if they have specialized features, more than the existing ones… it inspires people to spend online hours in the respective websites…..
The main advantage of the social network is it is at low cost, through this feature, small businesses who are looking forward to expand their contact base can utilize this feature…Here the products can be sold and reviewed, by just posting the photographs, comments, reviews or any other issue regarding the product will gain interest, and it becomes a low cost advertisement for the company in turn. The special function is most people tend to click on the advertisements, and this works for most of the small scale business companies. In most of the cases, business networking on social networks have gained a major success a t a low cost. Not only business networking, social networking can be used as a base for improvement of knowledge on healthcare products, ebook sharings, improvement of knowledge regarding educational values and many more things.
The basic feature in these networks is the user is usually invited and signup, and enters his personal information in the given profile, and upload his/her photograph, and to be a friend of the other user, needs his/her prior approval, and in some networks it is not necessary.
Get discovered is one more such activity, in which the user signs up, updates the profile – may be with photographs, may be the music / album is uploaded, and other members or public viewers can go through the profiles and the updates and can discover the artists or whom so ever who had to be discovered.
There is one more interesting feature available on the net, is make money, through which advertisements are published and one browses through them, and if a person clicks on a particular link, the end user recieves a certain amount of money, and in some cases the persons are referred, participate in paid surveys and make money online…
But although, all these features are highlighted, the main motive of the social networking is to make friends, either new online friends who in turn end up in close pals, or in finding their old, dear pals in due course. Many a people join these networks, not to make money, not to gain popularity, not to get informed, not to be updated but to just make friends…