ONLINE COMMUNTIES

FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS OF

DIFFERENT ONINE COMMUNITIES
• Each type of online community has:
• A function which is what it does for people who use it
• Features which enable its function
• Online community: a group of people with
a shared common interest who
communicate online.

• Member: someone who is part of an online

community.
SOCIAL
NETWORKING
COMMUNITIES
• Social network is the practice of forming
groups in a society. Online social network
communities allow members to connect
through shared interests or relationships. For
example for online social networking
communities include Facebook, Baidu and
Twitter.
 FEATURES THAT ENABLE THE FUNCTION
OF SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNITIES
PROFILES

• A collection of user's information is known as

profile.
• You can add information about yourself to your
profile.
PROFILE CAN BE PERSONLISED BY
MEMBERS AND THEY CAN INCLUDE:
• Biographical details
• A description of the user
• Details about user
• Contact informations
• Family details 
 FRIEND, FOLLOW AND
CONNECT
• Different social networking communities have similar
features that allow users to add someone to their social
network. These can be known by many different names
such as friend, follow and connect. 
 STREAM, WALL
AND TIMELINE
• A user's stream, wall and timeline
is the place where the posts from
members friends appear.
 STATUS UPDATES
AND POSTS
• Social networks are powerful
marketing tools because they contain a
huge amount of information that
people post about themselves. The
owners of the social networking
community can store
these informations in a database and
analyse it. They can then sell this
information to advertisers. This is
targeted marketing.
GROUPS, LISTS AND CIRCLES