Social Networking Lecture 2 Popular Social Networks Learning

Social Networking Lecture 2 Popular Social Networks Learning in Retirement Carleton University Fall 2009

Popular Web Sites • Utilities • Dictionaries • Onelook Go To onelook • Encyclopedia • Wikipedia Go To Wikipedia

• Maps • Mapquest Go To mapquest • Google maps Go To googlemaps

• Financial • Banking • Scotiabank Go To Scociabank • Stock Portfolios • TSX Go To TSX • Reservations • Air Canada Go To Air Canada

Search Engines “Universal Addressing” • Google Go To Google

Blogs • From Wikipedia: • A blog (a contraction of the term "web log")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Blog Sites • http: //www. blogtopsites. com/ GOTO

Social Networking Lecture 3 A Popular Social Networking Sites Learning in Retirement Carleton University Fall 2009

Portals • Yahoo! Go to Yahoo! • Yahoo! provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. • It operates a web portal which provides content including the latest news, entertainment, and sports information, and gives users quick access to other Yahoo! services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger. • My Carleton Go To My. Carleton

Posting Sites • You. Tube Go to Youtube • a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos • Flickr Go To Flickr • a photo sharing site

Social Network Sites • My. Space • Linked. In • Facebook • Twitter

• My. Space Go to My. Space • a social networking website • Linked. In Go To Linked. In • professional connections

Facebook • Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. • Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. • Go To Facebook

Twitter • From Wikipedia: • Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. • Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.

• Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. • Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. • The 140 character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages.

Twitter • Play Clip Play Video • Twitter Go To Twitter

Social Networking Lecture 3 B Create a Facebook Group Learning in Retirement Carleton University Fall 2009

Facebook Group Reference http: //www. facebook. com/ help. php? page=414