Social Networking Sites -: Social Networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups who, for Example, share ideas, activities, events, interest, photos, messages and videos. The Social networking website function like an online community of internet users. In social networking website, every user has a profile, which contains information about them. A user can also invite other people to join these websites, no matter what their hobbies, beliefs or interests are. Some popular social networking sites are: Facebook, LinkedIn etc.
Twitter And Microblogging -: microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their status in short posts distributed by small messages, mobile phone, e-mail, digital audio or the web. Some of the most notable service are Twitter, Tumblr, Plunk, Haiku etc. Twitter is an online social networking site (www.twitter.com) that allows users to send and receive text based messages know as tweets. Tweets are restricted up to 140 characters. With a Twitter account, you can choose to follow other members and receive their tweets on your page. Moreover, other people can also follow you. Twitter has gained worldwide popularity and has become one of the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet. It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet".
Internet Forum -: The term Forum refers to a discussion area on a website where people with common interests can communicate in the form of posted messages. It is a system that allows users to send, read and reply to messages on a particular subject in real time. A forum can be focused on nay topic, such as language, technology, sports, music, religion, etc. To become a member of the forum, a user is required to register into the particular website. When the applicant is approved to be a member of the forum by the administrator, then one can set his/her username and password and thereafter one can navigate within a forum. To read or view the topic of interest, simply click on it. Similarly, one can read the posted messages of any specific discussion, and then users can reply to any of the messages. A Forum is different from a chat room. In a chat room, people usually chat at the same time, whereas in a Forum, members in a discussion group post messages that can be read by other members whenever they log on. Some commonly used forum software are PBB and FUD forum.
OneDrive -: OneDrive, previously known as Skydive or windows Live Skydive, is a free online storage facility offered by Microsoft. It has been officially renamed from Sky drive to one Drive in February 2014,that means one place where you can store all your photos, videos, documents and much more, anywhere on any device free of cost. It allows users to specify the files they want to keep private, make public or share with contacts. It is a password-protected storage area in the cloud that allows users to upload and synchronize data to cloud storage and then access it from a web browser. Microsoft originally offered 25 GB free for Sky Drive users, but reduced the amount to 7 GB in the year 2012. From September 2013 onwards, it has included four premium storage plans to upgrade the storage space.
E-mail -: Electronic mail is a process of sending and receiving text based messages over the Internet. You must have an e-mail address to access e-mail on the Internet. The e-mail address is similar to your postal address. While sending an e-mail, we enter the e-mail address (s) of the recipient (s) so that the computer should know where to send it.
An e-mail address consists of two parts, separated by @ ('at') symbol. An e-mail address cannot contain spaces, e.g., [email protected].
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