Thursday, August 13, 2009

Thing # 21--Facebook and Linkedin

Facebook: The very popular social networking site, specially with teenagers. Users can add friends and send messages, update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. To become familiar with Facebook I attended Laurie's class, she also showed us the dummy Library Facebook page. She explained how to keep things private, put tags, add photos.

There have been concerns regarding the difficulty of deleting user accounts, as of last year Facebook has changed its deletion policy and now users can contact the website to request that their accounts be permanently deleted.
My nephews and nieces created Facebook accounts and were so excited about it, now they have lost interest in this and stopped using it and moved on to Twitter. Twitter is the new craze.

Linkedin: is a business-oriented social networking site. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

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