The popularity of social networking by laptop users

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There are many social network websites that can be accessed on the internet; Facebook, Bebo and Myspace are just some of the most popular ones today. These free to use, interactive websites are predominantly used by people who would like to make new friends. There was a time when many young people spent most of their free time playing the latest games on a gaming laptop ; the phenomenon of social network websites has certainly changed that. Using these friend finding websites is pretty straight forward, once you’ve created your personal and private password and username, you just simply login anytime you would like to use it. These popular websites are not only used by young people with laptop computers or access to the internet at a Wi-Fi café, people of all ages use these addictive websites on a daily basis. Although Facebook was initially intended for high school and college kids, this and other networking sites are used by students and business people alike. In fact, many employees are spending more and more time accessing these interactive websites, viewing other people’s profiles and uploading pictures of themselves. Office workers quite often spend a lot of their free time as well as working hours sat at a desk in the office with their business laptop reading the profile of someone interesting. The wasting of company time was, and still is blamed on the over use of sending and reading personal emails, staff accessing network websites during working hours is also very common.

Wherever You Are

Facebook was founded by ex Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow computer science majors, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The original name for this second largest social networking website as far as the amount of traffic is concerned was, The Facebook. This now, multi - million dollar company was initially introduced to the US market and seven other English speaking countries. These days, Laptop and desktop computer users in developing countries as well as native English speaking nations can enjoy the benefits of this innovative service. This interactive website which started off as just a hobby for the guys involved, can be accessed either by Ethernet connection or when a Netbook user is in a Wi-Fi hotspot area. The uses of this convenient internet service vary from people hoping to meet new friends, get back in touch with old acquaintances or network for business purposes. In fact, some people really look forward to going on Facebook to see if they have received any messages on the site’s wall. This particular section of the website is where laptop users on the go or office workers at their place of work, can write messages to their contacts, referred to as your friends on this site. People invite others to be their friends by clicking on the persons name; they are then either accepted as a new contact or rejected. Many people spend hours at a time using their home laptop to search for people they may know by using the search for friend’s option.

Profile Pictures

What Facebook initially asks its new members to do is to create a personal profile of themselves. This basically involves writing various information about yourself using your laptop to do so, including what your hobbies and interests are and your relationship status. Of course, this request is optional and non compulsory. Some people even choose to write humorous or fictional personal information about themselves. Having a digital camcorder with high definition capabilities can prove very useful for adding movies you have made to the appropriate section on your personal profile page. There are many users that use Facebook and other networking websites as a means to find a partner in life. If you have purchased a quality digital camera from an online provider of laptop computers and other electronic equipment, it could work in your favour. Although you don’t have to if you would prefer to stay as anonymous as possible, you can upload your own picture to be placed on your personal profile space. Buying a digital camera with HD quality functions will help make your picture more appealing to the opposite sex, if that’s your intention. Some members like to add on still images that they had previously downloaded from an internet website to their portable computers. Some of the best mobile computers available over the internet or from high street stores are the satellite laptop ranges. These quality and affordable mobile computers come in a variety of designs and capabilities with many of them having an integrated webcam.

Cultural Phenomenon

Another extremely popular website for networking is Myspace, which was formed in 2003 and now has approximately 80 million users worldwide. Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe and a small support team launched this site with both professional and personal users in mind. What made this successful venture stand out from the other social network websites, is that it offered the chance for its members to fully customise their profile pages and media. Anyone who wanted to upload their own music or movies that they had stored on their laptop computers, could add them to their profiles. This was the beginning of Myspace becoming the forerunners in the social networking websites industry, literally millions of young people jumping ship from Myspace’s competitors and coming on board to a new level of online interaction. By April 2006 there were about 10 million new members on Myspace, which is supported by the heaps of paid advertisements that are all over their web pages. Any teenager that had bought a portable computer that had trouble being able to connect to the internet to pick up this social networking site, would be jamming the laptop support telephone lines for immediate help. DeWolfe, being a business graduate and Anderson having a number of degrees in the Arts, including film and English, had certainly struck gold when they entered the market of social networking online. The amount of young and old people alike that use the Myspace website, connecting via their laptop or desktop computer is growing all the time.