Social Networking Service

Hi All,

I would like to share this article with you here. It gives a general introduction of Social networking in many aspects: history, social impact, typical structure, emerging trends in social networking, etc.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Social impact
• 3 Typical structure
  • 3.1 Basics
  • 3.2 Additional features
• 4 Emerging trends in social networking
  • 4.1 Social networks and science
  • 4.2 Social networks and education
  • 4.3 Social networks and grassroots organizing
  • 4.4 Social networks and employment
  • 4.5 Social network hosting service
  • 4.6 Business model
• 5 Issues
  • 5.1 Privacy
  • 5.2 Data mining
  • 5.3 Notifications on websites
  • 5.4 Access to information
  • 5.5 Potential for misuse
  • 5.6 Risk for child safety
  • 5.7 Trolling
  • 5.8 Online bullying
  • 5.9 Interpersonal communication
  • 5.10 Psychological effects of social networking
  • 5.11 Patents
  • 5.12 Worker's rights
• 6 Investigations
• 7 Application domains
  • 7.1 Government applications
  • 7.2 Business applications
  • 7.3 Dating applications
  • 7.4 Educational applications
  • 7.5 Finance applications
  • 7.6 Medical applications
  • 7.7 Social and political applications
• 8 Open source software
• 9 See also
• 10 In the media
• 11 References
  • 11.1 Notes
• 12 Further reading

Best regards

WEI LIU