Social networking websites provide a forum for an online community of Internet users. Sites like Bebo, Facebook and Nimble attract Internet users from all age groups and allow members to online. Depending on the website in question, members share a variety of interests and hobbies and they can use the site to chat, message, email, upload and download photos and videos, blog, discuss and share information.
More recent additions to the world of Social Networking are sites like Twitter and LinkedIn. Twitter is what is called a “micro-blog”. This means that people publish short notes on what they are currently doing, allowing friends to keep track of what’s going on in their life. LinkedIn is more like traditional social networking sites, except it is aimed at professionals wishing to maintain or extend business connections.

A Parent’s Guide to Social Networking.
Free copies of this booklet can also be ordered by contacting the Internet Advisory Board.
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