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These social networking sites are becoming a trendsetter nowadays.SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES Some people compare Plurk with Twitter, because both of these social networking sites have limitation for character in updating status, which are 140 characters. But, Plurk is not as popular as Twitter in Indonesia. Plurk was developed by and envisioned as a communication medium meant to form a balance between blogs and social networks, and between e-mail messaging and instant messaging. Plurk also supports group conversations between friends and allows usage of emoticons together with the usual text micro-blogging.Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links. Updates are then shown on the user's home page using a timeline which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Users can respond to other users' updates from their timeline through the Plurk.com website, by instant messaging, or by text messaging. 45 ,[object Object],Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumble-log, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumble-log private. The service emphasizes ease of use. John Maloney is the President of Tumblr. Tumblr's emphasis is on customization and ease of use, with a relatively simple sign-up process. There are many forms of content that can be added to the user's own tumble-log; the seven general categories for posts include Text, Photo, Quote, Link, Chat, Audio, and Video. Users quot;
followquot;
other tumble-logs, much like on Twitter, and their updates appear in one stream on the Dashboard. This is the interface from which users can like and re-blog posts, as well as add content to their own tumble-log. The quot;
likequot;
button lets one user tell another that they like his or her content, and the quot;
re-blogquot;
button easily reposts content from one tumble-log onto another, providing positive feedback. 46

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