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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use it to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. MySpace is one of the online communities that lets you meet your friends' friends. With more than 47 million members worldwide, Friendster is one of leading global online social networks. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them


By MARKO ANDREJIC
from Belgrade, SERBIA


Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use it to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area. Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. You can join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you. This Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world. Privacy is important and people should have control over how they share their information and who can see it. People on Facebook can only see the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks. They can use privacy settings at any time to control who can see what.

MySpace is one of the online communities that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a private community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from famous actors. MySpace is for everyone: Friends who want to talk Online, Single people who want to meet other Singles, Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends, Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree, Business people and co-workers interested in networking, Classmates and study partners, Anyone looking for long lost friends!

ICQ was established in June 1996 under the name Mirabilis. The founders were four young avid-computer users in their twenties and they realized that people were connected to the Internet, but not interconnected. Instant messaging was the missing link, a technology that made peer-to-peer communication possible. The following year the young company took the internet by storm. The idea was simple. Yet, by the time ICQ was released it was an instant success that answered the needs of the internet users. In 1998, after two years of amazing growth, ICQ was acquired by AOL LLC.

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 12 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections' connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals. Through your network you can: find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended, be found for business opportunities, Search for great jobs, discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals, post and distribute job listings, find high-quality passive candidates, get introduced to other professionals through the people you know

With more than 47 million members worldwide, Friendster is one of leading global online social networks. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with friends, family, school, groups, activities and interests. Friendster prides itself in delivering a clean, user-friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking.







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