Widen the Virtual Friends Circle

Did you ever worry about your limited circle of friends? Today’s high technology and has provided us with the so-called Globalisation effect, where we can connect with anyone anywhere anytime. Thus, Social Networking plays a major role is this? Online social networking involves connecting and sharing information with other like-minded people via the Web.

When deciding which social networking site you should join, consider the features you'll need and the audience you hope to reach.

Do you want to meet your lost friends/classmates/colleagues, meet new people or just keep in touch with people? Be interactive and generate new ideas? Start/Sell a business? Learn new things? Socialize?

I am a person who is weak in the area of writing mails. Actually I am not very into writing long mails. But the social networking sites now provide an opportunity to maintain the relationship even via long distances. The following is a list of some of the more popular FOAF social networking applications.

The sites below are commonly used in the Maldivian Youth society and all offer free memberships, though some provide extra functionality if you pay for a subscription:

Facebook: This is the most widely and commonly used one in Maldives, which is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region.

Flickr: This is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. There are special groups for Maldivians or people who share similar interest.

Twitter: This is also a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. The 140 character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages.

Netlog: Similar to Facebook, in Netlog members can create their own web page, extend their social network, publish their music playlists, share videos, post blogs and join groups.

hi5: This is another similar website as FB and Netlog. Here, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. Hi5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile.

Bebo: Bebo stands for “Blog Early Blog Often”, where each profile must include two specific modules, a comment section where other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends.

Zorpia: Lets you to share unlimited photos, post journals and make friends. It gives a customizable look and style.