Review On Social Networking Sites

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

Now a Days Internet Technology is growing rapidly and the most of the people are using internet for gaining information and updating their knowledge. The internet usage is increasing the social networking sites are playing a major role to interacting and communicate the people all over the world. Social networking sites are web based services. These services can be fun, entertainment and useful for ever people. People can easily and simply creating their own profile pages and connects with one to one basis. There are different social networking sites are available.the most popular social networking sites are Linked in,facebook,twitter,live journal,google+ and orkut etc,.In the most recent times many companies are advertising their new products into social networking sites because lot of people see that information about the product and some of them are attracted to the product.

"Social Networks should improve your life,not become your life".[PATTRICK DRISSEN]

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LITERATURE RIVIEW:

Communication is the two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. Communication can be processed in many different forms like social networks.

Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. The online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life social networks. the online social networking services: Cyworld, MySpace, Orkut, Facebook ,Twitter, for each there are more than 10 million users. Cyworld, the oldest of the three, demonstrates a changing scaling behavior over time in degree distribution. The latest Cyworld data's degree distribution exhibits a multi-scaling behavior, while those of MySpace and orkut have simple scaling behaviors with different exponents. Some of the online social networking services encourage only some of the online activities that cannot be easily copied in real life. .The operations carried out in this sites has increased more because of different communication forms like chat, messages, video call, audio call,wiki,sharing files, group discussions, creating blogs. This sites are being used for publicity of the products, they have direct web links. It is also used to share the knowledge all over the world in which we can know about all the issues going on in the world.

The first recognizable social network site launched in 1997.Six Degrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and beginning in 1998,surf the Friends lists.Sixdegrees promoted itself as a tool to help people connect with and send messages to others. This may cause restlessness in the users, this may lead to mental disabilities.(Tom Higgins et al,2009).From 19th century a number of community tools began supporting various combinations of profiles and publicly articulated friends.asianavenue allowed users to create personal and professional and dating profiles in which users could identify friends on their personal profiles without seeking approval for those connections.

There are many saying about social networking they are:

This may cause restlessness in the users, this may lead to mental disabilities.(Tom Higgins et al,2009).

Different forms of communications like chat, messages, video call, audio call,wiki,sharing files, group discussions, creating blogs."(Alessandro Cecconi, 2007).

Social networking sites are being used for publicity of the products, they have direct web links from which they can rate the products. (P.Sri Jothi et al, 2011).

Users could identify Friends on their personal profiles without seeking approval for those connections (O.Wasow, personal communication,August 16,2007).

Instant messages have been introduced by Fitzpatrick, personal communication, June 15, 2007.

AIMS:

To know the main purpose of using social networking sites.

To know the different social networking sites used by different gender and different age groups.

To find the frequency of visiting users in social networking sites.

Social networking sites are provided by which kind of data and applications are used.

OBJECTIVES:

INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE:

FACEBOOK:

Face book is the most world’s popular social networking site and widely using in this time. Facebook is a social website which has been launched in Feb 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Savarin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Muscovite  and Hughes. To use face book any user have to create their own account to access facebook.This face book account is created with e-mail id’s like Gmail, yahoo and etc,.Every face book user have to create their own password to secure the personal information. Even 13 years old with e-mail ids are also acceptable. By using this every one can easily interact and sharing ideas with friends, family members and relatives. Users can post their status and feelings, upload pictures, videos, post events and creating groups with their personal interest and other people can also join with their own interests.

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LINKED IN:

It is a most professional social networking site connects with trusted contacts. Over 200 million professionals using this site for exchanging information, ideas and opportunities.it dominates the world of job search and recruitment. The main use of LinkedIn is build a professional online profile, stay up to date with professionals, colleagues and business relationships. And finding excellent experts in your industry and learn from them, finally explore the new business and job opportunities.

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TWITTER:

Twitter is an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140characters, known as "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. Twitter is motley used by celebrities, politicians and sports stars. Every celebrity have lot of followers.

ORKUT:

Orkut is the one of the product Google. This designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It is launched in 22nd January 2004.Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.Orkut having approximately 1.7 million monthly visitors.

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MY SPACE:

It is a social networking site with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. We can create accounts depending on their interests, like they can create a personal account or a musical account. The main applications of this social networking site is Groups, TVs, Classifides,polls and etc.,.

RESEARCH PROGRAMME:

The google domain is registered on sept 14th 1997 an d finally the google corporation was formed after a year in1998

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SOCIAL NETWORKING QUESTIONNAIRE:

The sole purpose of this questionnaire is to gather the individual ideas on social networking sites. Such information gathered will be used only for academic purposes and are reflected in a research paper defining the boon and bane of social networking sites.

The questionnaire takes approximately 5minutes and it is purely voluntary. Please take time to read the questionnaire and complete it with honesty and to the best of your knowledge. The information provided is confidential and not disclosed to anyone.

1. Your Name: ________________________

2. Select your age group:

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

35 or above

3. Gender:

Male

Female

Other

4. Marital Status:

Single

Married

Divorced

Other

5. Occupation:

Employee

Student

Unemployed

Housewife

If other specify _____________________

6. Do you have any account in social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, Google+ etc?

Yes (If yes continue the questionnaire)

No (Please mention the reason why you are not part of any social networking site. Thanks for your feedback and this is the end of your questionnaire )

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Which of the following social networking sites do you often use?

Orkut

Face book

LinkedIn

My Space

Twitter

If other specify ______________________

8. How long have you been maintaining an account in the social networking site?

Less than a month

1-6 months

6 months to an year

1-2 years

More than 2 years

9. How many hours per day do you spend on a social networking site approximately?

Less than an hour

1-2 hours

2-4 hours

More than 4 hours

10. Tick the main reason for using social networking sites

Entertainment

Education

Business

Personal use

Because my friends use social networking sites

Other

11. On what scale do you think that the information provided in the social networking sites is true? (5 being 100% trustworthy)

1 2 3 4 5

12. Are you addicted to social networking site?

Yes ( To what extent)

___________________________________________________________________

No

13. Have you ever lost your personal information due to hack of your account?

Yes( Provide the specific details)

________________________________________________________________________

No

14. Lastly, I prefer using social networking sites

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

Undecided

Thank you for your participation and valuable feedback.

Personally my view is that social networking has both advantages and disadvantages.

ADVANTAGES:-

To Improve the Communication with others.

Provides an opportunity to improve business contacts and job opportunities.

Improves business dealings and client base with minimal use of advertising.

Also increase the market techniques and publish new advertisements with free of cost.

Allows employees to discuss ideas with colleagues and post news, ask doubts and share links.

Easy to improve the information discovery and delivery.

And also market research is expanding easily.

And easy to learn the peoples thoughts and ideas.

And easy to build your credibility.

And Time Consuming.

Free Business Promotion

DISADVANTAGES:-

Increase possibility for hackers to commit fraud and launch spam and virus attacks.

Increase the possibilities to online scams.

There is a more chance to Youth attract by negative things.

There is a chance to increase the Negative Publicity. 

Many peoples addicting EX: - Using Face book for your need is not bad but when you waste most of your time than it becomes bad.

 Teenagers will be addicted to the social websites and hence ignore the real world. As a result, it will worsen their interaction with people in real life.