Nowadays, people are very familiar with the term Social Network Sites, especially for those who were highly active in using the internet. So, what is exactly this term means? It is a group or community of people linked by common interests, religion, politics, friendship, family relationship, knowledge, and many others.
Besides for the social needs, these sites can also be functioned as one of the effective marketing tools. For example, one can target customers on social network sites such as friends, family members, and colleagues to offer its goods or services. Along with the global popularity and usage of Android smartphones, BlackBerry, and iPhone, the social network sites were automatically accessed in more frequent times than ever. As a result, it tends to change the way people communicate with others and also change the way people earn revenue through the internet.
Recently, there are plenty of websites that provide the social network activity. Below are several sites that are already being popular worldwide.
Facebook or commonly abbreviated as FB is the most well-known and most used social network site globally. It was first launched in February 4, 2004 and it was founded by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg. The company claimed that there are more than 800 million active users worldwide and more than 50% of the active users log on to Facebook daily.
Twitter offers a general form of social networking and also focuses on micro-blogging. It allows you to follow what your friends are doing and also share information about your current activity. This is a true competitor of Facebook since it now has 200 million registered users and 100 million active users every month. Most of users log in to their account from the smartphone or pc tablet such as PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Motorola Xoom.
YouTube
YouTube is a website that allows you to search, view and upload videos that you created yourself intended for sharing with other users. You can even download videos from YouTube by using the external applications. This is a great way to build a viral marketing through video. YouTube was created in 2005 and now it has 490 million users worldwide.
LinkedIn is the social network site that is aimed for professional business. It was established in December 2002 and publicized in May 2003. It is mainly used for professional networking. In August 2011, LinkedIn had more than 120 million registered users worldwide.
MySpace
MySpace is a popular site that offers a network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos specifically for teenagers and adults around the world. MySpace is also the place to promote new bands. It was launched in 2003 and it has 33 million global users (August 2011).
There are so many interesting facts about the social network sites, for example those sites have overtaken porn sites, there are so many married couples that met via these sites, and there are many companies that used these sites as their promotion and recruitment tool. However, these sites are still vulnerable of criminal activit such as data theft and the individuals who claim to be someone that they are not.
Just for your information, there is another social networking site that is recently released specifically in Indonesia. If you wonder what it is, just go to your web browser and enter the site at Paseban.com. Paseban is an Indonesian Social Network and Community site, where all communities get together and get the ease of communicating with all of the members. Here you can find numerous communities based on many topics, interests, religion, and many other.
Besides providing the social network site, Paseban also offers the great applications such as Free SMS application where you can send messages to friend or family that is totally free of charge. There is also an application called Telcolator that provides the calculation of your operator service tariffs include phone, sms, data and many others. With this highly functional application, you can determine by yourself of which operator services that meet your needs and habits. Other interesting application is the What’s Good For Me that allows you to determine which mobile phones that suit your budget and purposes. Also, there are many other applications that can ease the communicating between community or personal. So, what are you waiting for? Enter the site now and you will not even regret it. [IS]
