Nodoubt there have been a blast of Social networks in the web today including video sharing sites like You tube/Google Video and a long list of blogs.Social Networks have evolved from friendship, relationship and entertainment platforms between netizens. Orkut, Myspace, Facebook they bring together people with dissimilar set of interests. Its quiet frequently used by common net users to find long lost friends or acquaintances. But what is interesting to note that now unique networks are being created by sites that provide the functionality to share with other netizens. Sites like Flickr and Picassa help you to share your photos with rest of the world. Same with blogs that gives you the platform to share your thoughts and writtings. Not to forget- Youtube and Google Video and many more. Commenting, Marking as favorite, rating are few actions that makes unknown unseen people to communicate and build a relationship with eahother.
Another aspect of Social Networks that also cannot be missed is how some key players in this field are converging ways to network. To cite an example is Google and Yahoo. Google that started with Search engine went on to emails and chats to Orkut then whole set of blogs, photo sharing video sharing maps document sharing etc etc. Giving the user to network through different mediums and be part of one huge community.
All these are general in nature and not specific. What happens if I want to join a social network with members who are ardent readers or cricket fan or bollywood fans. A site had come up joga.com for football fans but became more of a trash site than anything else. Now Google is trying to revive it.
Can the third generation of Social Network sites evolve into networks of specific interest and have functionalities that be useful for those in that community then maybe networking through web become more fruitful.
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