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Social Networking Sites

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An online social networking site is a place where user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects the user to other users. What used to be just a niche activity has today taken the proportions of a global phenomenon that engages tens of millions of Internet users. Online social networks are ideal for exchanging ideas, views, and garnering public opinion; although, these are restricted to the users of the social network. Popular social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook are changing the Internet scenes. Another social networking programme is that used by a company called Amway. The company operates on the system of multi level marketing. Members make new members and get monetary benefits on the purchases made by down the line members. Members sell the company’s products through social networking. And the members of the company itself constitute a large network, which members use for other businesses as well. The Amway model has been so effective that...
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Social Networking as a Human Need!

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Human beings feel an inherent need to connect and expand their connections. There is a deep rooted need among humans to share. In the past, due to geographical distances and economic concerns, connections between people were limited. A social network is made up of individuals that are connected to each other by a particular type of independency. It could be ideas, values, trade, anything. Initially social networking happened at family functions where all relative and friends would conglomerate under one roof. Social networking has always been prevalent; it is just that in these times the face of social networking had changed. Where earlier the process was long drawn, involving a chain movement wherein one person led to another through a web of social contacts, today the process is highly is specialized. Communication has been instrumental to a large extent to a growth of social networking. With the invent of internet and cell phone a lot of social interaction is captured thro...
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Internet as a Political Medium!

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From a political revolution in Syria four-five years back till the recent U.S. presidential election, and of course in the future as well, the internet has always played a significant role due to its reach, connectivity, and high potential of impacting the consumers across the globe. Since the world is connected closely through Internet, a vast amount of information is passed through various mediums especially social media platforms. Political establishment recently have realized the importance of internet literacy and the importance of its efficient exploitation in a political arena. With merely an internet connection, anyone, literally, can build a website and launch an online campaign. An activist can research on legislation overnight, gets the fact sheets and generates thousands of emails to Congress the very next day, while sparking bloggers and journalists to create awareness about the same, meanwhile. It is important as it gives a really good opportunity for almost...
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Internet bringing rise to Virtual Reality

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Majority of the youth are hitched with games, with the recent games mostly played being online multi-player role playing games such as World of Warcraft, Counter Strike, Dungeons & Dragons and a numerous more number of games! Now we no longer crave from 2D films but rather 3D movies making the watching experience closer to reality. As our generations increases we keep craving experiences that are closer to reality. Slowly we are craving a path towards this, a virtual reality world. Virtual reality is the creation of a virtual environment presented to our senses in such a way that we experience it as if we were really there. Virtual reality(VR) is more or less like a simulation of a 3D environment and controlled by the movement of our body. VR is basically one of the promising technologies being developed in current times with already a quite number of users. In Oct’2016, researchers at KZero estimate that by 2018 there will be more than 170 million active VR users worldwi...
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Internet as a Boon for E-commerce!

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In this new time almost everything we buy is ordered online. Electronic commerce, also known as e-commerce, has developed rapidly in the last few years. But what led to this fast pace development in improving our daily lifestyle is nothing but the advancement of The Internet. The evolution with time of the information technology sector has by far initiated an ease of buying and selling of varied items. Although there may be cases for fraud or poor quality items being sold, the extent of stretching far around the world and helping entrepreneurs in setting themselves up with low budgets far exceed these shortcomings. Internet has become a large platform for many business operations and small scale start-ups. It’s become one of the major sources of broadcasting and getting yourselves known out in the market. It has helped housewives with hobbies extend themselves out in the market, made things easier for those wanting to create their own platform. It has helped small shops sell...
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Internet is the new 'NEWSPAPER'

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Let’s rewind to the time where getting to know current events meant searching for a newspaper or listening to the radio. How rarely was it that we could know what’s happening in the same city, let alone the rest of the world. Although now news on television or newspapers has improved awareness highly, it may well be said that most of the current percentage of the youth and working class now rely on the Internet for current updates of news. Internet helps provide us with a platform to easily send a message out to the world!                                                        Well let’s not just talk about the current news industry moving to the Internet, having the current affairs posted on online websites, ins...
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