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What is Social Networking Site

Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
Internet-based service which allows individuals to create online profiles and share information with other users. Popular examples include Facebook and MySpace.
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Legal Issues Associated with Emerging Social Interaction Technologies
Robert D. Sprague (University of Wyoming, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch031
Abstract
This chapter focuses on legal issues that may arise from the increasing use of social interaction technologies; prospective employers searching the Internet to discover information from candidates’ blogs, personal web pages, or social networking profiles; employees being fired because of blog comments; a still-evolving federal law granting online service providers sweeping immunity from liability for userpublished content; and attempts to apply the federal computer crime law to conduct on social networking sites. The U.S. legal system has been slow to adapt to the rapid proliferation of social interaction technologies. This paradox of rapid technological change and slow legal development can sometimes cause unfairness and uncertainty. Until the U.S. legal system begins to adapt to the growing use of these technologies, there will be no change.
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Adapting to Virtual Third-Space Language Learning Futures
Sites such as Second Life®, MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube that provide a forum for people to share thoughts and experiences with others by communicating and socializing on the Internet.
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Online Social Networking and Romantic Relationships
An online platform which allows users to build social networks.
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Blogging in Foreign Language Education
A blog site that promotes the sharing of personal information and has built in features for connecting with other users so as to promote communication and exchange. In contrast to blogs, social networking sites generally contain more multimedia and the capacity to add friends so users can participate in a community and share images, video and textual information easily.
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Cyber Crime Against Women and Girls on Social Sites in Bangladesh
A social site is an online platform where people build social networks or relations with other people who usually share similar interests. A social networking service is a platform that increases group interaction and shared spaces for collaboration, social relations, and aggregates information exchanges in a web-based environment (Barlett-Brag, 2006).
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Social Media Brand Management
Technological platform to build social networks among people, e. g. Facebook or Twitter.
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Death Analytics and the Potential Role in Smart Cities
An online service, platform or site that focuses on building and maintaining relationships which often includes various forms of interaction and the construction of a public representation for the user.
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Online Romance in the 21st Century: Deceptive Online Dating, Catfishing, Romance Scams, and “Mail Order” Marriages
An online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with users on their website.
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Social Capital, Social Networks, and the Social Web: The Case of Virtual Volunteering
An online service that allows users to maintain a personal profile and communicate with others in an interactive media-rich environment.
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Social Engineering Using Social Networking Sites
An online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website.
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Collective Awareness Raising Towards a Plant-Based Diet Through Social Networking Sites
A website or another online platform created on the internet which allows the user to create public profile and connect with other users.
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Multimedia Social Networks
A platform (e.g. Friendster, Tribe, Flickr, and Facebook) that facilitates users’ creating and sharing content as well as building large group of friends.
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Cyberbullying: A Research Overview
An online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users.
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Theory and Practice of Online Knowledge Sharing
A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is an online platform that is used by people to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
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Computer-Assisted Indian Matrimonial Services
An online place where a user creates a profile and builds a personal network with other users. Although this can be used to find a marriage partner, it is more general and does not use a special proprietary software to match the user to other potential partners.
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At the Mercy of Facebook: A Meta-Analysis on Impact of Social Networking Sites, Teen Brain on Teenage Pregnancies
A website that enables users to create public profiles within that web site and form relationships with other users of the same web site who access their profile.
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