Join the social networking phenomenon. Connect with friends and family with one of the many social networking platforms available.
Social media is here to stay! The days of gossiping around the water cooler at the office have morphed into texting friends, family and business associates from any and every location. There has been a virtual explosion in the amount of people using the social media platforms available on the web.
Popular Sites
Initially constructed for college students, Facebook.com has maintained its momentum and become one of the largest media platforms available to everyone. Ease of use and the ability to connect is one of the strong features that has made its approximately 150 million members happy.
The 191 million members of MySpace was one of the first biggies on the block and boasts the largest membership. It offers a blog platform but it is its networking capabilities that the members use.
Forbusiness networking try LinkedIn. Boasting a 50 million membership [Source: Wikipedia.org] this powerful business networking platform is popular connecting and developing business contacts.
A very popular networking for the hip younger generation, Friendster.com was overtaken by MySpace. Personalizing profile pages with different skins and uploading pictures to each others sites is a popular feature.
Twitter.com is a social networking site that you update your followers with no more than 140 characters at a time. It is considered a micro-blog and updates can be made directly from the twitter site or from one of the many platforms such as Tweetdeck, Twitterific, and Hootsuite to name a few.
Bookmarking Sites
With StumbleUpon.com readers can give ratings as a thumbs up or thumbs down to different websites and blogs. Use StumbleUpon to discover interesting content, blogs, photos and video, that may not make it onto a search engine page.
Digg.com is a place where you can find and search for interesting sites that would otherwise be skimmed over by search engines. If you like something you can forward it to Digg and it will appear on upcoming stories. If people Digg it they can vote it to become popular and it will remain on the front page. If it doesn’t get enough Diggs it falls out of the Upcoming section.
The Meetup.com webpage describes itself at the world’s largest network of local groups. This site offers the opportunity to meet people with similar interests such as great Danes, sports and political views and then organize a get together.
Social media sites are evolving constantly. To stay in touch with your friends and family by investigating one of the popular social sites available for free.
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