A social network is an online platform where people from different part of the world can meet, interact and share their interest and activities. A social network service provides a profile for each user, through which they can introduce themselves to others. they have many categories like student ,working people or based on age like for teens, for those who are in their 20’s and so on…….
The famous social network websites are Facebook and twitter which are used worldwide. Other famous network websites are my space and linkedlen which are mostly used in north America, twitter, Facebook, Orkut and linkelen in India, Friendster, Mixi, multiple, Orkut, Wetch, Renrenand Cyworld in Asia and pacific island, Nexopia in Canada, Skyrock , Badoo, tagged in some part of Europe.
The most famous social network currently is Facebook. This website was launched in February 2004, it is privately owned by facbook. It had 600 million active users. Anyone who is up to 13 years of age can join this network. This website is founded by mark zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students. According to social media today on April 2010, it is estimated that 41.6% of the US population has a face book account.
Facebook has numbers of different features which are rare to find in other social websites such as Facebook requires true identity of users and if they like that can keep their identity limited with their friends and relatives. It has ‘wall’, a space for every user on his profile where his friends can write comments for the user to see. The other features like ‘poke ‘which allows its users to send virtually ‘poke’ to each other. They can upload albums and unlimited photos on their profiles and status, which allows their friends to know about their current affairs. Privacy setting is also available for photo album by limiting the group of people that can see the album.
