Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Networking through Social Media, Explained!

? What are social media networks?
? How social networking is so essential?
? On which structure social structure it belongs to which is making it exceptional?
? What are the basic parts of a social media networking site?

Social networking is something which is not a blue colored lava coming out from a tree. Its existence is always been there but its importance in the main stream becomes highly appreciated in past 5 years. But still it’s quite complex for the one to understand who is exceptionally coming out of the blue to social media networking.

Social networks posses a open-ended nature as you leaps in to the social network, and answered a few basic profile questions, its effortless to lay down on couch and marvel what you are suppose to do further.

The simplest way to get familiar with the social networking is to think like you are in a high school. You had a bunch of friends or some people you know around, but you didn’t know the entire crowd studying at your campus.

And when you have to change your school of to some reasons, then you must have an idea that what situation it would be, because you are starting up with no friend beings around you. After attending some lectures, you start to socialize by meeting the people and get associated with those who have the same thoughts and interests that you have.

Indulging into the world of social networking is as same like as you are going to start your new school. At first you don’t have any friends but as you join communities, you get to meet different people, and then select you friends from them by finding similarities between your interests and their interests.

SOCIAL NETWORKING STRUCTURE

Social networking must be pillared on concrete structure that permits the people to both express their own identity and communicate with the people having the same interests. This exclusive structure is included with, profiles, friends, blog posts, widgets, and commonly something unique to the particular social networking website—such as the ability to hi5 someone on Hi5 or poke someone on Facebook.

WHAT IS A PROFILE?

Profile is the promo your personality where you let the world know who you are, it includes the information about yourself like when did you born, where you get educated, which place you live, what are your core interests, what are your favorites and etc.

WHAT ARE FRIENDS?

Friends section of network is included with the trusted members of the site whom you have allowed to post comments to your profile and send private messages in your inbox. There are many options like tagging, live feeding, poking etc which you can avail with your friends. They are basically the heart and soul of the social networking. All the social networks have their own designations of the word friends, like in “LinkedIn” refers them as Connections.

WHAT ARE GROUPS?

Groups are the second most integral part of social network which helps in finding the friends of the same interests and thoughts indulging them into discussions on different topics. A group can be anything from “social media marketing professionals” to “people who like books” to “superman fans”. As “friends” get designated as “connections” so groups are also dual named as networks on facebook.

GROUPS MAKE YOU AWARE OF WITH TWO PRINCIPLES

One: They are the best option to meet the people of your interest as you are in small business then you can join a group where small business holders are sharing their thoughts, Which is quite suitable and make you able to share your experiences and learn from the others.

Two: second purpose they full fill is they make you able to find more information about your topic and make you reach the people who are related to same topic. For example: The Harry Potter group might have discussions about a particular plot line in the books or the location of an upcoming book signing by J. K. Rowling.

DISCUSSIONS

Original purpose of the groups is to build an interaction and relationship between the users in the form of discussions. Most of the social networking portals scaffold discussion black boards where the users chalk out their opinions, pictures, music, video clips etc.

BLOGS

Blogs are the powerful source of the social media networks which make the user enable to create their own blog submissions. While not as feature-rich as blog hosts like Wordpress or Blogger, blogging through a social network is perfect for keeping people informed on what you are up to.

WIDGETS

A popular way of letting your personality shine through is by gracing your social networking profile with web widgets. Many social networks allow a variety of widgets, and you can usually find interesting widgets located on widget galleries.

Social media networking permits the user to maintain light and more in depth contact with connections, links, associates and established friends. This continuous interaction and the growth of relationships will give you both short and long term benefits, in which some of them are unexpected plus surprising. For example, it’s quite usual for a person to endorse your website to another person without any intimation on your part. Through this process your small business can be able to turn into business world GODZILLA.

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