This document discusses famous social networking sites. It begins by defining social networks and how social networking applications facilitate new connections between individuals for personal or business reasons. It then provides statistics on social networking site usage. The main body details the top social networking sites like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Skype, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Telegram. For each site it provides a brief description and their number of active monthly users. The document concludes by discussing some positive and negative effects of social networking sites on education, employment, communication, and privacy.

1. FAMOUS SOCIAL
NETWORKING
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Jonayed Rousan Mandal
Roll No: BED172062
4th SEMESTER
ALIAH UNIVERSITY

2. Introduction 1
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A social network is defined as a chain of
individuals and their personal
connections. Expanding one’s connections
with other people is a technique that can be used
both for personal or business reasons.
Social networking applications make use of the
associations between individuals to further
facilitate the creation of new connections with
other people. This could be used to meet new
friends and connect with old ones, as many
people do on Facebook, or to expand one’s
professional connections through a business
network like LinkedIn.
Now, even relationships begin, grow and
end on social media. People no longer need a
personal handshake or face-to-face meeting.
As per the statistics revealed on Statista,
approximately 2 billion users used social
networking sites and apps in 2015. And, with the
increased use of mobile devices, this number is
likely to cross the 2.6 billion mark by 2018.

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Facebook
WhatsApp
Instagram
Twitter
Google+
Skype
Pinterest
LinkedIn
Telegram
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4. Other Social
Networking Sites
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WeChat
Viber
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Reddit
YouTube
Classmates
Flickr

5. FACEBOOK
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• This is easily the largest
social networking site in
the world and one of the
most widely used. And,
Facebook was perhaps
the first that surpassed
the landmark of 1 billion
user accounts.
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• Apart from the ability to
network with friends and
relatives, you can also
access different Facebook
apps to sell online and
you can even market or
promote your business,
brand and products by
using paid Facebook ads.
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• Number of active users
per month: 1.59 billion
approximately
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6. WhatsApp
• Despite having been
acquired by Facebook in
2014, this instant
messaging platform exists
as an independent entity.
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• It arrived on the scene
much later than
Facebook, but has been
able to capture the
imagination of millions of
people across the world
by giving them the ability
to communicate and
share instantly with
individuals and groups.
• Number of active
users per month: 1
billion approximately
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7. Instagram
• Instagram was launched as a
unique social networking
platform that was completely
based on sharing photos and
videos. This photo sharing
social networking app thus
enables you to capture the
best moments of your life,
with your phone’s camera or
any other camera, and
convert them into works of
art.
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• Instagram allows you to
apply multiple filters to
your photos and you can
easily post them to other
popular social networking
sites, such as Facebook
and Twitter. It is now part
of the Facebook empire.
• Number of active
users per month: 400
million approximately
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8. Twitter
• Membership is free, and
users can post updates
(up to 140 characters
long) as often as they like.
You can “follow” other
users, and get their
updates sent to your
email or mobile device
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• Twitter also makes it
possible to promote your
businesses and even shop
directly through tweets.
• Number of active
users per month: 320
million approximately
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9. Google+
• Owned by the tech giant
Alphabet (Google), this
interest-based social
networking platform
enables you to stay in
touch with people by
sharing messages,
photos, videos, useful
links to sites and so on.
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• It also extends support for
video conferencing
through Hangouts and
allows businesses to
promote their brands and
products through Google+
business pages.
• Number of active
users: 300 million
approximately
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10. Skype
• Skype, owned by
Microsoft, is one of the
most popular
communication-based
social networking
platforms. It allows you to
connect with people
through voice calls, video
calls (using a webcam)
and text messaging.
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• Conduct group conference
calls and, the best part is
that Skype-to-Skype calls
are free and can be used
to communicate with
anyone, located in any
part of the world, over the
internet.
• Number of active
users per month: 300
million approximately
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11. Pinterest
• This is a photo sharing
and visual bookmarking
social media site or app
that enables you to find
new ideas for your
projects and save them.
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• We can do DIY tasks or
home improvement
projects, plan your travel
agenda and so on by
using Pinterest.
• Number of active
users per month: 100
million approximately
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12. LinkedIn
• LinkedIn is easily one of
the most popular
professional social
networking sites or apps
and is available in over 20
languages.
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• It is used across the globe
by all types of
professionals and serves
as an ideal platform to
connect with different
businesses, locate and
hire ideal candidates, and
more. It boasts over 400
million members.
• Number of active
users per month: 100
million approximately
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13. Telegram
• This instant messaging
network is similar to
WhatsApp and is available
across platforms in more
than eight languages.
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• Telegram has always
focused more on the
privacy and security of the
messages you send over
the internet by using its
platform. So, it empowers
you to send messages
that are encrypted and
self-destructive.
• Number of active
users per month: 100
million approximately
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14. Positive Effects
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Effects of Social Networking Sites
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Education has become very convenient with the help of social media.
Students can easily share important data for class work or assignments
It is also effective for gathering information to prepare project
reports and other educational purposes.
Teachers find it’s easy to keep their students updated with the class
and exam schedules.
Save the effort of doing the whole employment process by
traditional methods. It gives opportunities to candidates who are
seeking for particular job profile.
The fastest way to advertise anything is to upload it on social sites.
Social media is faster in conveying the news or information than any
other media say radio, television or newspapers.
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Social media has helped people stay in contact with their distant
friends, relatives and other influential people in their lives, which
would have otherwise been impossible.

15. Negative Effects
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Effects of Social Networking Sites
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People are found wasting hours over hours on social sites acquiring
zero productive information. Discount commercials influence people to
spend unnecessarily.
No age Limitation: fall prey to the cyber bullying. This causes severe
effect on the mental and emotional health of the youth.
Lack of privacy on the social sites has turned out to be the most
threatening thing. Mostly the young generation is unaware of the policies
and end up uploading personal information on social sites.
Social networking can also ruin relationships as people may get
jealous if they find out their boyfriend or girlfriend is exchanging
messages with other people.
The behavior of kids and teens and can involve them in crime related
activities

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17. THANK YOU
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