Exercise 1b, page 38.0:05
Do you use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Twitter, Friendster, or LinkedIn?0:29
If so, then you are part of a social network.0:35
Social networking sites allow us to see our social connections.0:39
We can see our friends and their friends through pictures and links in a user-friendly interface.0:43
When you create a profile on a social networking site, you open up a huge range of possible social connections.0:50
You can look up old friends, make new friends, and share music, photos, and videos with them.0:57
You can also join groups based on your interests or hobbies, favourite TV shows or music.1:03
Setting up a social networking account is simple.1:10
You just create and post a personal profile.1:13
For this, you need a login name, password, and an email account.1:17
Then you add some personal information, such as name, age, sex, location, interests, etc. You can also add a photo of yourself.1:22
You can personalize your profile and share as much information about yourself as you want.1:33
You can also control who sees your profile.1:38
For example, you can make sure that you only allow the friends that you have added to your network to see it.1:41
The next step is to search the network for your contacts.1:49
Browse for new ones, and add them to your network.1:52
You can invite offline friends to join by email, or search for friends who are already signed up by name, school, or workplace.1:55
Then you can search your friends' connections for anyone else you'd like to add to your network.2:03
Different social networking sites allow people to interact in different ways.2:08
There are straightforward sites that allow you to expand your personal community, such as Facebook.2:13
Then there are ones that involve media sharing, such as YouTube, where members upload and look at other people's pictures and videos.2:18
There are also ones that specialise in sharing music, such as Last.fm, and finally, ones that allow bloggers to form online communities, such as LiveJournal.2:27
The latest trend in social networking is to create your own independent social network.2:39
Companies do this to promote their brand, and individuals can do it to create a very tight-knit community.2:44
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