A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services and sharing video and photos.
Social networking has created new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life.
The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommended systems linked to trust.
Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook, MySpace and Bebo being the most widely used in North America.
Social Bookmarks
What are Social Bookmarks?
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains.
The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Starberry highly recommend the inclusion of social bookmarking within websites as it dramatically assists with your Natural Search. The more links you have directing to and from your website, the better the likes of Google will index your website.
