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BY Hima K RATHOUR (4848) Gaura V KASHYAP (4864) BA SANT GOYAL (4872)
BY Hima K RATHOUR (4848) Gaura V KASHYAP (4864) BA SANT GOYAL (4872)
BY Hima K RATHOUR (4848) Gaura V KASHYAP (4864) BA SANT GOYAL (4872)
HIMA
K RATHOUR (4848)
GAURA
V KASHYAP (4864)
BA
SANT GOYAL (4872)
BBS I-B
SOCIAL NETWORK
A social network is a description of the social structure between
individuals or organizations. It indicates the ways in which they are
connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual
acquaintance to close familiar bonds.
LISTSERV is the first electronic mailing list software application.[1] Prior to LISTSERV,
email lists were managed manually. To join or leave a list, people would write to the
human list administrator and ask to be added or removed, a process that only got more
time-consuming as discussion lists grew in popularity.
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows
users to connect and login to the system using a terminal program. Once a user logged in,
they could perform functions such as downloading or uploading software and data,
reading news, and exchanging messages with other users
In July 2008, a Briton, Grant Raphael, was ordered to pay a total of GBP
£22,000 (about USD $44,000) for libel and breach of privacy. Raphael
had posted a fake page on Facebook purporting to be that of a former
schoolfriend Matthew Firsht, with whom Raphael had fallen out in
2000. The page falsely claimed that Firsht was homosexual and that he
was dishonest.
At the same, genuine use of social networking services has been
treated with suspicion on the ground of the services' misuse. In
September 2008, the profile of Australian Facebook user Elmo Keep
was banned by the site's administrators on the grounds that it violated
the site's terms of use. Keep is one of several users of Facebook who
were banned from the site on the presumption that their names aren't
real, as they bear resemblance the names of characters like Sesame
Street's Elmo.[46] The misuse of social networking services has led
many to cast doubt over whether any information on these services
can in fact be regarded as true.
An increasing number of academic commentators are becoming
interested in studying Facebook and other social networking tools.
Social science researchers have begun to investigate what the impact
of this might be on society. Typical articles have investigated issues
such as
Identity
Privacy
E-learning
Social capital
Teenage use
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