Have you heard of Facebook? It is a social networking site that was originally made exclusively for Harvard University students and just after a few months, it became open to the public.

For me, Facebook is the most addictive social networking site i’ve ever joined to. Only those who are on your friends list can see your full profile which means that you still have your privacy in this site. You can poke your friends, write on their walls, dedicate songs, share videos, give gifts, answer fun quizzes, upload photos and much more! The site currently holds the record of having the most photo uploads in the world with an average of 14 million uploads a day. The site ranking also increased from 70th place to 7th place.

Do you have a myspace profile page? If yes, then good for you. If none, you’re so missing a lot!

Myspace is one of the most popular social networking sites today. It is currently the 6th most popular website in the world and is the 3rd most popular in the United States. Just imagine how many million users checks their account everyday!

The best thing about myspace is that it almost has everything you might possibly want and need like profile, pictures, comments, widgets, blingees, blogs, groups, networks and the newest one is the myspaceim where you can chat with your myspace buddies.

The internet is one big popularity contest. Getting on the front page of a social bookmarking site such as Digg, Del.ici.ous, Stumble Upon, or Reddit turns into page views. Page views turn into clicks. Clicks translate into revenue.

If you want to know how often your blog or site has come up in the biggest social bookmarking websites, try SocialScan.com. It is fast and easy to use, and best of all you don’t even have to register an account and risk getting spam from them or anyone else. Simply go to SocialScan.com and enter your URL in the text box (for example, dailyinternetreview.com) and hit the Submit button.

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MySpace recently now announced an exciting project: its own digital music portal competing with current market leaders iTunes and Amazon.com’s MP3 store. They are currently negotiating with major record companies such as Warner Music, Sony, and Universal. According to reports, the pricing is “going to be very competitive.” Also, many of the music downloads will come without any digital rights management technology, so that the users will be free to copy and use the music on any device.

This venture is almost certain to succeed since MySpace is the most popular social networking site among the huge and important demographic of North American teens, and has over 110 million registered users, 30 million of which regularly use the site’s built-in music features.

The internet now links an astonishing 20 percent of the world’s six billion people; in most Western nations at least half the population use the world wide web, according to Internet World Stats.  An explosion in social networking websites and technology means that increasingly, these people have many opportunities to get in touch with each other.

‘Social networking’ describes the plethora of web-based applications like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Digg, boasting large online communities of people with shared interests.  These sites usually allow members to build a profile, in the form of a web page where you display information about yourself, your interests and your activities.

Social networking sites are usually thought of as distractions for students, but Facebook may prove to be the exception to this rule. Here are some applications that actually make Facebook useful for teachers to share course materials with students. So if you are a teacher, why not set up a Facebook group and make the most of today’s technology?

• BookTag: This app offers a great way to share and loan books out to students, plus create helpful quizzes for studying.
• Webinaria Screencast Recorder: Record a video for students, and share it with this application.
• Mathematical Formulas: Distribute formulas, solutions, and more with this application.
• SlideShare: Create presentations to send to students with this slideshow application.