Social networks allow people to connect and share information online. Popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn each have hundreds of millions of users worldwide who use the sites to socialize, share content and information, discuss topics, and stay connected with friends and contacts. While social networking provides benefits like increased social interaction and business opportunities, it also presents disadvantages like potential for identity theft, addictive tendencies, and wasting of time online.

1. ONLINE SOCIALONLINE SOCIAL
NETWORKSNETWORKS

2. SOCIAL
NETWORKING

3. SOCIAL NETWORK ?
A social network is a description of
the social structure between actors,
mostly individuals or organization.

4. SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE
 A social network service focuses on building online
communities of people who share interests and activities,
or who are interested in exploring the interests and
activities of others.
 created new ways to communicate and share information
 chatting, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, ,
discussion groups, and so on are the features of this
service.
Popular methods now combine many of these,
 With Face book widely used worldwide;
 Myspac ,Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used
in North America
 QZone is famous in China.

5. NOW…. WHAT IS SOCIAL
NETWORKING ?
 Put simply, social networking is a way for one person to
meet up with other people on the Net.
 Some people use social networking sites for meeting
new friends on the Net.
 Other's use it to find old friends. Then there are those
who use it to find people who have the same problems or
interests they have, this is called niche networking.

6. WHY TO USE SOCIALWHY TO USE SOCIAL
NETWORKINGNETWORKING ??
 Socializing
Make friends
Create groups, communities.
 Sharing information – files, music, video, pictures
 Time utility
 Business
 Discussions.
 Take advices.
 Advertising at a cheap cost.

7.  The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an
invite-only "field testing" phase.
 On July 14, 2011, Google announced that
Google+ had reached 10 million users just two
weeks after it was launched in a "limited" trial
phase.

8.  A 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site
as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.
 Now the site has become one of the biggest web
sites in the world, visited by 500 million people a
month.

9.  Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey,
Twitter has gained notability and popularity
worldwide and currently has more than 100
million users worldwide.
 It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the
Internet.

10. ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING
BENEFITS
 Increase sales
 Building customer relationship
 Create awareness and engage people
 Educational benefits
 Health Benefits

11. DISADVANTAGES
 Identity Theft
 Addictive
 Creating Imposter(wrong)profiles
 Time waster

12. CONCLUSION
Part of almost everyone’s life.
Every thing is this world has some +ve
& -ve’s.
These sites are useful to users, owners
and third party.
Huge platform for data & information
sharing
Growing increasingly.
Scope for improvement (weak
regulatory role)