SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

The world has been so changed. The present and the developing technology is one of the main reasons for that. People are more interested in internet so that they could connect to the world and see what`s changing everyday now. Most of the people on net are busy on social networking sites…listing:-

 1.myspace,

2.orkut,

3.skyrock,

4.Hi5,

5.youtube,

6.linkedin,

7. twitter,

8.facebook,

9.Friendister,

10.Omegle

People are moving on to sites like youtube, myspace and facebook for entertainment while stunning more traditional modes of communication. This means that soon , TV watching might be no longer be the dominant mode for passing time. Social networking might just as well fill this void.

Youngsters, teenagers designed their profile on social networking sites and create an AVATAR .They add beautiful quotes and sayings describing best about themselves. We can term it as AVATAR CREATION. In this we also add up profile photo. It might be theirs photo or photo of the film stars like Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Sharhukh Khan, Hritik Roshan and female actors like Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra etc. Sometimes people also set attitude photo as their profile photo. Many people share photo of their relative, family functions without understanding the risk. Now a day’s hacking is so common and so a person could be easily exploited.

Now the question arises that why the social networking sites are so popular and is that so that we need it…The answer lies here:-

1.   COMMUNICATING THOUGHTS AND IDEAS TO OTHERS:-Social networking sites provide its users variety of ways to express their emotions on their choice of topic & so it is so popular. Anyone can freely express his views & share it among anyone in the world. With just a click everybody gets aware that what you are thinking at that instant of time. 
2.    CONNECTING AND CONVERSATON:-It is quite interesting to share your day-2-day life things among friends and share your secrets. You can even chat to your friends who haven`t met you for few days, months or years. Now you can even video chat to your relatives who are far away from you. From anywhere, you can connect to your friends. Sites like omegle give you a chance to have chat with strangers having common interest.  
3.     FOR INTERACTING WITH INDIVISUAL EXPERTS:-Through Linkedin we can chat to various other business man, employee, CEO, HR of the companies. You just have to make a profile & you will get all information about the company you are interested in. you will even receive job alerts form the companies.

There are also certain demerits of using social networking sites. Now a day`s social networking sites are full of fake id`s and so it is important that what to share & what to not. Also most of the sites get hacked because of easy password which was correctly guessed by the hacker. Due to fake id`s & hacking our personal stuff leaked out, that we never want to share to others.

SOME TIPS:

·         The password you are using should not contain easy guess words like magic, terror or your DOB or name or place. Some PASSWORDS that are hard to guess is #35Ap6T@og9sB

• ·         Your password should contain at least 10 letters including special signs like #@!( etc. & numbers 1,2,3… etc , mixture of capital & small letters such that they don`t form a word(having some meaning).

• ·         You should have a licensed antivirus. It will prevent your system from getting hacked.

• ·         Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) maintains a list of running program. From there you can end unwanted programs. You can even download Process Explorer (advance version of task manager).

• ·         Don`t enter your password until you are sure that it is a protected page (shown by https) and a lock sign in there at the address bar.

• ·         When you login from other`s personal computer. Log out & also delete cookies & history.