Social networking

Social networking services

• A Social networking services : is online community used between people who share the same interests, so that they can meet online and share information and ideas.

Examples of Social networking services • Communicate with classmates (colassmates.com)

and friends (facebook.com).• Communicate with people who share common

interests or hoppy : like movies (fixter.com), books(shelfari.com), photos (flicker.com).

• Communicate with people with the same job.• Communicate with others about an idea. ex : for

parents to talk about birth, child-raising and parenting in general (gurgle.com)

How does Social networking services work?

• The user must create a profile for himself/herself.• A user can become friend with another user on the

service by sending a request.• Both users must agree that both want to be friends

so that the request to be accepted.• There is usually setting that allows a user to choose

who can see their profile and other information from the services.

Impact of Social networking on society

• Allow people to easily find information they need or locate people they are searching for.

Concerns regarding social networking services

• Privacy• Identity theft