Answer the following questions to write a paragraph on 'Social Network Services'.
(a) What do you mean by social network services? (b) Which is the most popular network? (c) What are the other social network services? (d) How do they give services? (e) Why are social networks expanding fast?
SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES
Social network services are actually online services. There are a good number of social networking services such as facebook, Twitter, Linked in, YouTube, Hi5, Skyrock, Friendster, Orkut, Skype etc. Among these, now facebook is the most popular social networking service. All kinds of social network services are web-based. These services have made it possible to connect people sharing interests and activities across the borders and thus have made a lot for the users to feel that they really live in a global village. At present, mobile phone users can now create chat rooms, hold private conversations, share photos and videos, and share blogs by using their mobile phone. So, nowadays social networks are expanding so fast. Besides most of the social services are cost-free. We can make use of them free, paying a Very little to the Internet service providers. We can make our personal profile before the entire online community. It is really like presenting ourselves before the entire world. We can also look into other people's profile if we are interested. It is simple and easy. Besides these, social networks allow users to upload pictures, multimedia contents and modify the profile. But there are privacy protection measures too. A user himself or herself decides over the number of visitors or viewers and what information should be shared with other. Because of all these stated above, social networks are expanding so fast. So, it can be said emphatically that everything, good or bad, depends on the users of the social networking services. The users will be greatly benefited if they use these services properly.