Social Networking Part I
February 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Hallo,
back here after a really busy week 
Social Networking is something all people speak about. Social Networking has so many parts to it. It can mean networking with friends , networking for business, networking for information and much much more. It for sure can be seen as an alternative way for griving traffic to your website.
There are many ways to make people aware of your website, homepage or blog. “Traditional” ways include Adwords on Google known also as Pay-Per-Click Method. Further methods are press releases or blogs, ezine articles as well as social bookmarking. Still, there are many more, even if not primarily initialized as traffic drivers. Social Networking is one of these “alternative” powerful traffic driving tools.
Social Networking has been initialized, as the name is self explanatory, to connect with people all over the world. In past times the post office was an important communication center. People used to send birthday greetings, best wishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Some hallo postcards from holidays or for important occasions as births or weddings have been as important as a phone call from time to time.
Since the age of Internet and e-mailing had started, many people stopped writing in the traditional way (postcards for instance) but changed communication to the online version. Businesses switched from facsimiles to e-mails, private persons from cards to mails. But, not all did so. Not all had a PC available from the very beginning, not all used it immediately for both business and private purposes. And this is where a big communication gap started: some people were ahead communicating almost exclusively via online media and tools whereas others still communicated the traditional way. As life progresses, many got married, changed jobs, moved to different towns and people would lose contacts. This is exactly the ground where Social Networking was born.
Social Networking allows you to connect with people all over the world. You can find friends from college times or your neighbor from high school times. It is very easy and straight forward to tell the world about you, without having to write the same information one by one to all interested. You simply can write it down once and then tell people to go to your Social Network Site if ever they ask you for updates on your business life, on your interests, want to see pictures of your kids and much more.
There are many platforms out there today, MySpace and Facebook being among the best known and most used. There are further platforms as LinkedIn for instance that address mainly business professionals, where you will find colleagues from former companies you worked for or where you can check to which company a colleague switched to.
Some more to come … in just a few days, so make sure to check in soon!
All the best
Kasia
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Social networking is a term that was used prior to its use on the Internet. Basically a social network is a community of people sharing common interests. It enables a gathering of like minded people to develop greater awareness and knowledge of their mutual business, hobby and personal interests.
Isn’t social networking great!? I would never have time to keep up with great and inspirational people like you if I had to rely on the good old mail.
Thanks for another informative post.