Saturday, 4 June 2011

About social networks

        Introduction


              In this technology era, we have seen Information technology (IT) grows rapidly. Nowadays, almost everybody knows how much the IT really worth for them and it is quite difficult to find people who do not posses at least one of these kinds of gadget such as hand phone, laptop or portable music player. Along with IT, these gadgets are being able to connect to the Internet that we used it to shop, communication, research, find places and get direction. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of  local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.


The most commonly parts of communication in the Internet are e-mail, instant messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol, and group communication. All of these Internet communications is considered as a part of social network.






 What is social network?


Social network is used for online personal or business networks. It is grouping of individuals into specific groups like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high school, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the Internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, gather and sharing first hand information and experiences about other interest, developing friendship, finding employment, business to business marketing and even group sharing information.

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