1. SOCIAL
NETWORKING
Submitted by
Preet Raj
BBM 1st year

2. Social networking
 A social networking service is an online service
 It focuses on facilitating the building of social
networks or social relations among people
 Most social network services are web-based and
provide means for users to interact over the Internet
 E.g. -as e-mail and instant messaging.
 Social networking sites allow users to share ideas,
activities, events, and interests within their
individual networks

3. Social networking (contd…)
 The main types of social networking services are
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those that contain category places
such as former school year or classmates, means to
connect with friends
American-based services Facebook, Google+,
and Twitter widely used worldwide
A 2011 survey found that 47% of American adults
use a social network.
As of February 2012, 66% of online adults use social
networking sites.

4. Social networking (contd…)
 Pie chart on mostly used social networking site

5. Social impact
 Web-based social networking services make it
possible to connect people who share interests and
activities across political, economic, and geographic
borders
 Through e-mail and instant messaging
 Facebook and other social networking tools are
increasingly the object of scholarly research
 Social networks are providing a different way for
individuals to communicate digitally

6. Features of social networking
 Typical feature
 Additional feature
 Social networks and education
 Professional uses within education
 Social Interaction

7. Typical features
 Social networking sites (SNSs) share a variety of
technical features
 It allows individuals to: construct a public/semipublic profile
 It articulate list of other users that they share a
connection with, and view their list of connections
within the system
 The most basic of these are visible profiles with a list
of "friends" who are also users of the site

8. Additional features
 Some social networks have additional features, such
as the create groups that share common interests or
affiliations, upload or stream live videos
 In most mobile communities, mobile phone users
can now create their own profiles, make friends,
participate in chat rooms, create chat rooms, hold
private conversations
 Some companies provide wireless services that allow
their customers to build their own mobile
community and brand it

9. Social network & education
 Social networks are also being used by teachers and
students as a communication tool
 Because many students are already using a wide
range of social networking sites, teachers have begun
to familiarize themselves with this trend in order to
leverage student interest in relation
 Some of this includes creating chat-room forums and
groups to extend classroom discussion to posting
assignments, tests and quizzes, through to assisting
with homework outside of the classroom setting.

10. Professional uses within education
 Professional use of social networking services refers
to the employment of a network site to connect with
other professionals within a given field of interest.
 SNSs like LinkedIn, a social networking website
geared towards companies and industry
professionals looking to make new business contacts
 Much of the early research on online communities
assume that individuals using these systems would
be connecting with others outside their pre-existing
social group or location

11. Social Interaction
 social networking is a way for one person to meet up
with other people on the net
 People use social networking sites for meeting new
friends, finding old friends, or locating people
 More and more relationships and friendships are
being formed online and then carried to an offline
setting

12. New trends in social networking
 Nextdoor is a new private social networking site
aimed at neighborhoods to help strength and
enhance social ties
 This SNS will help to bring together communities
since neighbors drifted away because of the digital
era
 More and more Americans are using social
networking sites as their primary sources for
information

13. Thank you