Social Networks

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors and the dyadic ties between these actors. The most popular social networks in the Internet are:

1.      Facebook  - Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages".

2.      Twitter - Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Users may subscribe to other users' tweets – this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps. The users can also check the people who are un-subscribing them on Twitter better known as unfollowing via various services.

3.      Google+ - is a social networking and identity service. Its main features are “Circles” which enable user to organize people into groups for sharing, “Stream” which  let users see updates from people in their circles, “Hangouts” are place for video chat. Google+ also have a messenger.

Social Networks, Facebook, Twitter, Google #

Source – Wikipedia

Pepi Katsarov, student, 1^st course, LIS, FF, N 40730