Introdution

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, cyworld and Bebo have attracted millions of users.

It is a online service. Building and reflecting social

relations. Share interest and activities. Share events and ideas to their

individual networks.

Social networking

The Sphere (luxury network), Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Hi5, hyvees(mostly in The Netherlands), friendstar, flickr (mostly in Germany), Iwiw (mostly in Hungary), myspace, Orkut, Google+, Mixi these sites mostly using in

India and Pakistan . A 2011 survey found that 47% of

American adults use a social network.

Some other social networking sites

First social network site is Sixdegrees.com. it is launched in 1997. After that Asian avenue, Black

plannet,Migente. Sixdegrees.com closed in 2000. Ryze.com was launched in 2001 to help

people leverage their business networks. Friendstar,orkut,facebook came into

existence.

HISTORY

94 percent students are using the Internet. 82 percent go online at home. 77 % had a profile on a social networking

site. students listed technology skills as the top

lesson, followed by creativity, being open to new or diverse views and communication skills.

Use of social networking sites in education

It wasn't until 1997 that the Internet reached 50 million users in the United States.

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Use of social networking sites in business

Negative impacts of social networking sites on human

Many people waste their valuable time by using social networking sites

Mental tensions

Facebook- It is banned in countries like China, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and UAE.

YouTube- It is banned in many countries primarily including Turkey, Thailand, Pakistan, China, Indonesia.

Twitter is banned in UAE, China. Blogger- The famous blogging platform

is banned in Ethiopia, Pakistan and China.

Wikipedia- This famous open source encyclopedia is also banned. The countries are China, Iran, and Pakistan.

Countries banned social networking sites

China blocks almost of the top websites including Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Orkut, Technorati, Vimeo and many others.

Why countries wants to ban social networking sites

Mainly because of the ‘privacy issues’ and ‘objectionable content’ most social websites are banned in China and middle-east Asian countries. 

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