How Social Networking Has Grown

Call it the increasing number of social networking websites or the undeniable fact that with changing society, it has become nearly a necessity for every individual to get registered in a social networking website, they become a meeting ground for people of various countries and cultures. Playing its part in universal peace and brotherhood, social networking not only enables us to make new friends living in our neighborhood, but makes it possible to make friends from the different corners of the world.

Social networking websites have taken collaboration to the next level. Want the answer to any question you’ve been searching for? Ask a friend at a social networking website! Want to know the reliability of a mobile phone you want to buy? Send a message to all your friends at a social networking website and if they know it, they will surly let you know. Social networking websites also allow you to create a profile so that people can know your likes and dislikes by reading it.

There are various types of social networking websites and while most of them are general social networking websites, some have been successful in creating niches in fields like professional social networking, gaming social networking and dating based social networking. Popular social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook allow its users to create online communities related to various issues like business, recent events, global problems, zodiac based communities, communities based on the generation etc. These communities help likeminded people to share their knowledge at a common place.

Social networking provides the ability to stay in touch and communicate with millions of users throughout the world without the feel of any discrimination whatsoever. Everyone wants to be on a social networking website and enjoys being there. Be it a celebrity or the grandma next door, being on a social networking website fulfills its purpose by providing its users with an alternate way to communicate and interact with people, they find interesting. In social networking, a user can easily find out about another user and his personality by looking at his profile. After a user is found to have an interesting personality, you can either send him a friendly ‘hi’ or add him directly as your friend. If your friend invitation is accepted by the other user, it means that he/she is also interested in being your friend.

Looking at the way technology is changing in the communications, it would not be a distant future to see a collaboration of different communication devices into one device that is able to provide communication of all kinds. Quite presumably, this device would be something on the lines of today’s smart phones but would provide better internet browsing abilities.
Today, social networking has grown so big that it can be seen almost everywhere throughout the internet. From video sharing social networking websites and social networks based on gaming, to websites with the social networking on food and recipes, the web2.0 seems bitten by the social networking bug. The future of social networking seems bright and will change the world to make it a better place.