Social Network Computer Software Web Tips Guide
Social Network With Many Networking Sites
By Christine Wales
A person may have a Facebook account, and that may indeed be
a social network, but to understand the true nature of these networks
you can no longer think of them as residing just on one website.
As recently as two or three years ago, a site like Facebook could
easily be the place where someone did all their networking and
accomplished almost everything they needed to do, whether it was
visiting with family or even contacting business associates.
Personal Network May Include Many Sites
Now their personal network might spread out into other sites
all over the internet, from a video blog to a photo site to chat
programs and business sites.
To lump everything together in the phrase "social network"
is actually an error, because the phrase doesn’t indicate that
there are in fact several different kinds of social networks.
Uploading Photos To Flickr
Take the example of www.flickr.com,
where people can upload photographs into an endless photo stream.
What makes this website more than just a static photo album is
the way people can add each other as contacts and comment on each
other’s photos.
They can form groups where everyone contributes photos on a certain
theme, thus becoming a virtual social media club centered on those
photos. Pictures can be tagged with keywords so that anyone looking
for pictures of, say, bush fires in Australia, can instantly find
them, no matter who posted them.
Social Bookmarking On Delicious
As well as posting photos on Flickr, a person might review their
options and contribute to a social bookmarking site like www.delicious.com
or, say, have an account on www.librarything.com,
where they can catalog their entire book collection.
They can review and tag books with keywords, start discussions
with other LibraryThing members, and create a social network with
fellow book lovers. All of these different kinds of networking
sites link together and form a sort of infrastructure of a person’s
online life.
This interconnection is happening more and more, as every person’s
social network spreads wider and wider. Some programs allow people
to post messages on Twitter and Facebook simultaneously. The site
www.livejournal.com
is a blogging site with comments and groups, and lets people post
their twitter feeds as blog content.
One Network With Many Networking Sites
The sites www.goodreads.com
and www.librarything.com,
two major book cataloging sites, can be linked to people’s personal
blogs or to Facebook. And Flickr photos and YouTube videos can
be embedded in almost any blogging site.
Every person belongs to only one network, but it’s composed of
many different networking sites, whether they are social bookmarking
sites, business blogs, or places like Facebook that contain almost
everything. The new social media is adding a much more literal
meaning to the phrase "world wide web."
About the Author:
Christine Wales has written a number of articles on Social Networking,
Computers, Software, Web Design and Online Shopping including
Facebook Proxy,
Social Media Tools,
Advertising Online,
Online Shopping,
Website Design.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Give Me Just The Social Media Facts.....
How does social media and social networking differ or are they
the same?
Though you often see the terms ‘social media’
and ‘social networking’ used in different ways in reality they
are very similar. They are not exactly the same but they are closely
enough linked that they work interchangeably for many purposes.
The media aspect is the actual method or
medium of communication used whereas the networking is the actual
social interaction. So it is easy to see where the two are very
similar and often used together or in place of the other.
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