Social Networking Videos

There are some very good videos on Youtube which explain social networking simply.

Firstly there is a very short introduction under two minutes and it explains the very very basics of what a social networking is.

This is a longer piece which is admittedly a little dull but it is all good information and it gives a background to why social networking sites are so big now and the potential problems with the sites.

And finally a very comical look into social networks, it might not e the most informative piece of journalism ever made but it makes us laugh.

News update

Tim Harford writing for Slate.com conjured the idea that Facebook is not dissimilar to Ikea? This is an excellent article where he considered the business model of: “Facebook, like Ikea—and like Microsoft—has mobilized an army of independent suppliers.” Read why these two very different superpowers are so very similar.

Myspace told to protect its young users in the US by: “The site has until the end of the year to develop age and identity-verification measures.” The site has come under pressure recently which not doing enough have now: “taken the initiative and purged as many as 5,000 registered sex offenders from its registry,” Says The Greenwich Time Newspaper website and continue: “but, again, it's impossible to know how many others lurk as yet uncaught and with false identities.”

Orkut – Google’s social network – has seemed to route out a worm which invaded the system over Christmas and the New Year so the population of Orkut – which is mainly in Brazil – can have their social networking prowess back.

First Post on a new adventure

Hello this is my brand new blog on social networking and through this I am to show how many different social networks are out there and how much the entire world uses them. When I started to look into this over a year ago now I was amazed how many were out their and how much, we the public, use them.

This blog will bring you some regular features such as Traffic Watch on Fridays where I will bring you the movers and shakers from the past week ands what we can not get enough of.

Their will be news round up on Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Saturday’s which will give you the latest from the week and what developments are in the pipeline.

Along with analysis of every network that is worth reviewing and more…