Showing posts with label Social networking sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social networking sites. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Cautiously place your footmarks on Internet


Now days, the usage of Internet has increased tremendously and most of the users are teenagers. Photo sharing sites, social networking sites, video uploading sites are high in demand. The main concerning point for the entire Internet savvy is to put a step ahead by thinking all positive and negative of that thing. In present times, peoples are using social networking sites like Twitter, Digg for sharing a lot of information, You Tube and Flickr for photo sharing and uploading private videos, Orkut and Facebook for stay in connection with more and more friends, joining communities, for personal interests and hobbies etc.


This is true that a virtual adverse effect has occurred to social networking on the Internet and besides this fact, people who are using Linkedin, Facebook, Orkut and lots more, they are totally unaware of the electronic imprints, they are leaving for all of us to envision. Some years back, these social networking sites were only meant for remaining in touch with each other through communities and scraps. Now, to subscribe on same sites, it needs many intimate details of personal life. This is quite risky and may prove hazardous for all.


Recently in the country UK, IT commissioner has given a warning to numerous youths that they would spoil their future careers due to the intimate details they have made public on such sites. One of the social networking site, Twitter accredits its customers to send tweets, text based posts that gets reflected in user’s profile pages and displayed to other ones also who have been subscribed to them. The site collects personal information of users and shares it with external third parties. The appeal of the digital world is now less defending and crossing boundaries needed for privacy. This is the right time to take a major step, as a plea to have a harder look not to globalize lot of your personal life. Think first and make use of such sites in more professional way.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Be careful – All Facebook and Twitter users


Now days, the hackers are targeting social networking sites and its quite preferable for the users, not to reveal their true identities and displaying up their personal mobile number and other details like credit card etc. In past few days, as per a report, geeks have intervened Facebook, which is the most popular site, compelling a lot of users to expose their privy information. The trick used by hackers, cunningly copies the site’s messaging service to send information to the users. The naïve users just have to click on the link, log in the page and supposed to fill the details. Those individuals who have attempted this task lead in betraying their private details.

The thefts and hackers are recognized usually by their emails, which normally present either a reckoned company or any bank that reaps private information. Since the World Wide Web has been become popular, hacking has come into existence and re established now days to raise access to privy data. Recently, a global technique has been used by geeks that lead spam advertising links to some fake sites. This resulted the users searching for some useful information was addressed to some artificial sites.

Sometimes, this may also happen like when you go for browsing something related with bank, number of other links just gets popped up and particular individual has to be sure while clicking a single link. In India, about 12 banks in year 2008-09 have been phished, involving Bank of India and ICICI bank. Different solutions have been taken against hacking strategies, but no solution affirms 100% safe network. The user has to be careful and must cross check any URL before just clicking on it. On the contrary, as per a study, approx. 56k cases of hacking have been ascertained in year 2008, risen by 66% as compared to year 2007. Main mantra of anti hacking is the awareness. Dear Readers, kindly spread this information and make people aware of this…

Saturday, May 23, 2009

All About Social Networking Sites


Now days, social networking sites are not only meant for making new friends, remain in touch with them, but have created a niche for themselves in the market, comprised with innovative and new features coming with each new day. In online media, Google and Yahoo are the explorers, who have actualized different options to beat the entire world. The social networking intonation has spread at a very speedy and fast rate. Some examples can be Myspace, Twitter, Orkut, Yaari, Facebook etc. Most likely feature in these sites is individuals can regularly check and update their profiles and share with everyone. Besides this feature, much other functionalities are attainable at these sites like public relations, businesses, fund raising and time passing games.


The medium comprised of creating groups, opening forums, discussion rooms and community intelligence have pushed several businesses to the potential channel of the market. These sites are free of cost and perfect medium of advertisement. Comprised with Podcasts, Web casts, Video emails, Wikis, Blogs, RSS, Contextual banner advertisements, the platform of social media is cramped with many participants like Jhoom, MingleBox, Yaari, Humsubka, Yo4Ya and many more. Main front leaders in this race are undoubtedly Orkut and Facebook.


As more and more mass is getting interested in this technology, few business icons firmly believes that there must be proper key technology trends, key enablers of content generation and social network capitalization all across the globe. This is all about an online platform, where there is a unity between network effects and rich user experiences for the end user.