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SOCIAL NETWORKING Social Networking Websites are a way for all kinds of people to connect with each other for all types of social reasons. By using people's home pages you are able to connect and send messages to exsisting friends and even make new ones. Such networks include Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, blogs, eBay, YouTube and more.

'History of social networking' It all began with the the start of computers in the 70s and 80s. Then came the internet and the need for communication between people. Email still to this day is a key comodity of our lives and doesn't seem to be dissapearing. Myspace though it no longer resides upon the social networking throne in many English-speaking countries – that honor now belongs to Facebook in places like Canada and the UK – MySpace remains the perennial favorite in the USA. It does so by tempting the key young adult demographic with music, music videos, and a funky, feature-filled environment. It looked and felt hipper than major competitor Friendster right from the start, and it conducted a campaign of sorts in the early days to show alienated Friendster users just what they were missing.It is, however, the ubiquitous Facebook that now leads the global social networking pack. Founded, like many social networking sites, by university students who initially peddled their product to other university students, Facebook launched in 2004 as a Harvard-only exercise and remained a campus-oriented site for two full years before finally opening to the general public in 2006.