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social networking site

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(Communications & Information) a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
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The book begins with a comprehensive list of social networking web sites in various categories and includes a glossary of technical terms, legal terms, and legislation.
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Social media is the umbrella term for the social networking Web sites and platforms that allow people to create their own societies of like-minded individuals.
* Phishing: Phishing is the attempt to acquire potentially sensitive information via email, instant messages, cell phones or through fraudulent web sites and social networking web sites. Generally, a link spoofing the authentic bank web site is sent via email, by scammers, to unsuspecting customers forcing the latter to divulge confidential information like username and password.
Hypernetworking was defined as spending an average of more than 3 hours per school day on Facebook or other social networking Web sites. This threshold was met by 11.5% of students; another 22% reported having no involvement at all with such Web sites.
Iraqi civil societies social networking web sites have been urging Iraqi citizens to take part in massive protests on February 25 in Baghdad and other provinces to call for better services and an end to corruption.
Reformist leaders and supporters communicate primarily through social networking Web sites and other Internet outreach.
"Web 2.0" technologies--such as Web logs ("blogs"), social networking Web sites, video- and multimedia-sharing sites, and "wikis"--are increasingly being utilized by federal agencies to communicate with the public.
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