What is An Online Social Network?
At a very basic level, social networking sites include the following:
* User profiles (public/private)
* List of friends
* Ways for users to interact (chat, messaging, sharing media, etc.)
Types of Social Networking Sites
Over the last ten years, SNSs have evolved from general friendship sites (e.g. SixDegrees.com, Friendster, Classmates, MySpace, Facebook) to more specific hobby-related and career-focused sites.
There are online communities for virtually everything imaginable, and these sites can be broadly categorized into four possible areas:
* Dating/friendship
* Alumni networks
* Career/business related
* Hobby/group networks
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