What is social networking?
What is a social network?
In a easy to follow, easy to understand, The Common Craft Show has published a short 2 minute video to answer these questions.
Check out Social Networking in Plain English!
Don’t forget to be careful with what you share and to whom you share it. If you are unsure of the outcome, do your homework. Thanks to SE Guide for this great find.
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You know those times you’re on MySpace and you’re wondering why the heck you ever signed up? This reminds me that it’s actually a place you can go network around in, not just a series of animated giffed out emo band promo pages. I wonder what “animated giffed out emo band promo pages” returns on Google? Probably a MySpace profile.
John,
The purpose of SMO, or anything that you do is suspect. Take blogging for instance, it is only effective if you maintain a consistent topic. The same goes for social sites, unless you are really there for the social aspect. But I am sure that you can find a great garage band if that is what you are looking for!
Oh, and by the way, “animated giffed out emo band promo pages” returns a recommended result for “animated gif out emo band promo pages” and the first is a blog result about myspace – http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/04/myspace-click-factory. Not a single myspace result, I imagine that is because most myspace profiles are spam…
It’s not the whole video is it? It seems to cut off a little early in the explanation. Too deep for me…
Katie,
Thanks for the comment. Believe it or not, that is it. This video, and social networking, isn’t that complex.
Now there are many other facets that are not covered, but I think the intended point of the (less than 2 minute) video is that it really isn’t that complex. If you want to get into it further, it has huge ramifications on the Internet.