Social Networking websites are something that is making the world wide web more powerful, supportive and essential. There are more than necessary social networking websites on the net. Most of us do a little mistake choosing the right platform for us. Some of us think that social networking is nothing but a waste of time. I bet, it is not a waste of time if you choose the platform you use wisely. All you have to do is to try to understand what is required by you or what type of social networking you’d like to use. Let’s have a look on these points.
If you are looking for some kind of social networking website to share everything with some limited friends, if you want to share your thoughts, websites or preferred blog post’s URL, photo, video etc, if you are looking for something where you can spend hours and hours, then you can choose Facebook, the most powerful social networking website in the world. Facebook connects you with the people around you. You can search for your old friends by typing their email addresses in the searchbox. You can even make completely new friends by the advantage of “People you may know” feature which is generally helpful for facebook users. So, if the abovementioned features are wanted by you, then you can go for Facebook. As all others, Facebook is free to use and you can immediately start Facebooking by registering with them. To register, click here and fill up the form.
Good sides: Facebook is good; because you are always connected with a lot of people around you. Whenever you upload any content like Notes, Photos, Videos etc, it automatically sends a message to all of your friends’ dashboard and remains until any other friend of that person does anything else. That means, you are always connected through facebook.
Bad sides: Cookies have both good and bad sides. Facebook has, too. Bad sides are, although you have total control over your privacy and the content you upload, facebook reserves all the right to do any kind of business (even sell all the profile information to third-party websites). Whenever you update any information about you, facebook preserves if for ever. Even if you delete your account, your identity and personal information will remain in the Facebook’s database. In this view, you are immortal in Facebook once you are there. So think again before going to the Facebook.
Hi5
We’ve talked a lot about facebook. Now let’s have another look over hi5, competitor social networking site of Facebook.
Well, that means hi5 competes with Facebook. Though both seems quite same, but differences do exist between them. For example, if you want your profile to be shown publicly in hi5, you can do so while your facebook profile can be seen by only your friends or friends of friends. Moreover, you can’t customize your facebook profile while you have total control over your hi5 profile. You can design your hi5 profile with your own unique style. So if you like to make your profile as well as you want it, then you may go for hi5. Registration is that easy and as usual free of cost. Click here and be a part of hi5.
Note: Another similar social networking website is named “MySpace”. If you prefer using hi5, then you can also choose myspace for your social networking media. There are very less differences between hi5 and myspace. Myspace can be visited by clicking here.
Twitter
Now, we are talking about something which generally remains silent but doing a lot to the people indeed. Yes, perhaps you don’t even know about twitter. According to my own-made definition of Twitter, “Twitter is something that silently rocks within the range of 140 characters”. Yes, 140 characters are all you can do with your twitter platform. Twitter is not really called a Social Networking website. Instead, it is called The Largest and most popular and most populous micro-blogging platform in the surface of Earth!
You can’t share your photos with your friends in twitter. You can’t even share your videos, music or anything you do in Facebook. Twitter was designed with a whole new and completely different concept. Twitter is only for letting your “followers” know “What are you doing”. Yes, that’s all twitter is.
Friends are called followers in twitter. More than 30 million baby boomers now connect on LinkedIn, and even more are on Twitter. And it doesn’t stop there. According to recent data from Inside Facebook, the number of U.S. Facebook users over age 35 doubled in 60 days–and is still on the rise.
No longer dominated by tweens, social media is a viable channel to market to business and family decision makers. And that means long gone are the days when you could just optimize your Website content and create meta tags and expect serious results from the Internet.
You need to get involved in social media and optimize your entire online presence. Before you begin, though, you must understand where your target audience resides online.
With the many options available to companies in the social media realm, it’s important to first learn about your audience. Where are they most likely to be engaging in social media?
Today it’s no longer enough, or even smart, to post a profile to MySpace and Facebook just because those are popular, and call that good. Your audience may be on Facebook or MySpace, or maybe it’s LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter or something else entirely. Do a search to see where your brand is being talked about.
How? You can do this directly from a major search engine or by using the search capabilities the social media outlets provide. For example, you can search twitter using http://www.search.twitter.com. And a great way to view your brand’s social media presence is to use http://www.prmetrics.com.
Is your company being discussed on any of the social media sites? If it is, you need to be there engaging in the conversation.
Coca-Cola is a great example of this. Did you know the Coca-Cola business page wasn’t actually set up or controlled by Coca-Cola? Two of its fans actually got there first.
But instead of getting angry about it, Coke used this to its advantage. It embraced its fans, inviting them to talk to them personally.
Think of the insight Coca-Cola gleamed from this meeting! And today, Coke has the second highest number of fans on Facebook for its corporate page–topped only by Barack Obama (http://www.allfacebook.com/statistics/pages/).
Can’t find any mentions of your company? Don’t panic. That means you have the unique ability to start the conversation—the way you want to start it.
But don’t wait. Get involved now and start talking about your company positively in social media channels.
While there are plenty of resources that can help you learn about social media, the best way to learn is to simply get involved.
Do some research on your audience, and then cautiously jump in. But please, before you do, make sure you have the time and resources available to devote to social media. Once you get the conversation going, it can be detrimental to stop.
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