Whenever I, logged into the virtual world, two things that become a rituals, first logged to a Google account and then to a social networking sites. I cannot think my life with out Google, apart from others goodies it is given me a new opportunity to express myself through my blog. For social networking sites, it is nice way to keep the relationship alive and kicking. An innovative mode to keep in touch with the friends, families, well-wishers and with your enemies too. Not always things go well, often people from different walks of life using these sites for washing their dirty linen in public, world getting heavier with bad breath. I too have a few accounts with different sites. Frankly speaking, often it is bit boring, person with whom I am relating if do not have the same wittiness or intelligence then connecting with them for long time is just like non-cordial duties than bonding.
Popularity of these sites proved that the citizen of the earth like to bond, some for good and some for bad. Apart from many others, these social networking sites played a major role for the changes in the Arab world. Since peoples of Tunisia snatched the well-deserved democracy from their dictator and thereafter happening in the neighbouring Arab state, you cannot deny that some of the credit should be given to these social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. No doubt with seventy crore plus users Facebook is the most happening sites but my vote goes to Twitter. As an ordinary person whenever I like to express my views, the Twitter is the best place. It is like broadcasting your views without bothering about the followers or whom you are following, somewhat going through a live commentary. You can promote anything and everything in Twitter or can follow anybody and all without a colorful multiple age wall posting like others. It is rather a micro-blogging site.
In India Facebook, Twitter and Orkut are the three main sites but we have others which equally famous and may be older than these lots. The following are the list of world’s top ten.
- Orkut
- MySpace
- Friendster
- Hi5
- NetLog
- Badoo
- Meetup
Top five
Facebook - It was co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. website launched in February 2004. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students and then only for college and university students but now opened to high school students to anyone aged 13 and over. It is most used social networking sites with almost billion users.
Orkut - It is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Launched in 2004. Help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India but 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2%. Available in 48 languages.
Twitter - It is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".
LinkedIn - It is more a business-oriented social networking site. Launched in May 2003. LinkedIn reports more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.
Myspace - It was the most popular social networking site in the United States till 2008. Myspace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace's monthly U.S. unique visitors at 43.2 million. Owned by News Corporation.
Bottom Line : Next time a friend from Mars? Looking forward to it.
!!!Mingle amid news and views with lots of hues without pressing the Fuse.!!!
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