Hi guys, I’ve found out that there are many different types of social networks. I have listed them below and also discovered I posted earlier about second life and found out it is a type of social network but can also be classified as a game.
Profile-based SNS
Profile-based services are primarily organised around members' profile pages which primarily consist of information about an individual member including their picture, interests, likes and dislikes. Bebo, Facebook and MySpace, are all good examples of this.
Content-based SNS
In these services, the user's profile remains an important way of organising connections but plays a secondary role to the posting of content. Photo-sharing site Flickr is an example of this type of service, one where groups and comments are based around pictures.
White-label SNS
Most social networking services offer some group-building functionality, which allows users to form their own mini-communities within sites. Platforms such as PeopleAggregator (www.broadbandmechanics.com) and Ning, which launched in 2004, offer members a different model, based on the creation and membership of users' own social networking sites.
Multi-User Virtual Environments
Sites such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, online virtual environments, allow users to interact with each other’s avatars – a virtual representation of the site member. Although the users have profile cards, their functional profiles are the characters they customise or build and control. Friend’s lists are usually private and not publicly shared or displayed.
Mobile SNS
Many social network sites, for example MySpace and Twitter, offer mobile phone versions of their services, allowing members to interact with their friends via their phones
Micro-blogging/Presence updates
Micro-blogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku allow you to publish short (140 characters, including spaces) messages publicly or within contact groups. They are designed to work as mobile services, but are popularly used and read on the Web as well.
Social Search
Social search engines are an important web development which utilizes the popularity of social networking services. There are various kinds of social search engine, but sites like Wink and Spokeo generate results by searching across the public profiles of multiple social network sites, allowing the creation of Web-based "dossiers" on individuals.
3 comments:
Really good post, very informative detailing the different types of social networks and how they are used, what type of social network do you prefer?
i prefer the vitual one because its like im playing the sims, but i have found out that the virtual has caused a couple to divorce because the wife thought that if you create an online virtual account its classified as cheating because you are creating your "desires" online. it was quite weird. but i do also like profile based because i get to find friends i haven't spont to in a while
I don't like ANY kind of social networking. Feel free to call me anti-social but they are just a waste of my time.
All in all good post and very informative :-)
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