Social Media for Networking

                                         SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NETWORKING

Use Social Media to Start Networking

Whenever you hear the words "Social networking", there are a number of social media sites which probably come to mind. However there are several social media, social bookmarking and social networking websites out there and the top social networking sites seem to dominate the social networking scene more than most of the others combined.  Here is a short look at some of the top social networking sites as well as what they provide for their users.


MySpace  is one the first websites which comes to mind when the term "social networking" is brought up because its been around for the longest time and offers other forms of communication in an effort to network, and to stay in contact with people all over the world.  It is among the original social networking websites, and it has an extensive base of users, causing it to be one of the top social networking sites. MySpace  connects users who  common interest with music, books, tv shows, videos, pictures and profiles. Subscribers can set up a list of friends, a gallery of photographs, a personal profile, and a place to write all about their interests and what is important to them.  Quite a few successful internet businesses have come from this immensely trafficked web site. It's one of these places where it's worthwhile to stay inside the terms of service for the site. However, with a little creativity, you can make good use of the marketing business opportunities featured by MySpace.

But what about a different one of the top social networking sites; Twitter - Another extremely popular social networking channel that is created when social networking is talked about.   Twitter brings about a completely unique form of networking called micro-blogging. Micro-blogging entails creating updates in micro-format. Readers to your Twitter feed easily keep up with your regular micro blogging news throughout. It's very similar to the way your followers keep up an RSS feed or a typical blog.  However, micro format can make writing in a Twitter account much more simple than other forms of blogging and social networking. Twitter also allows for cellular updating, so that you could update your followers on your status from wherever and whenever, no matter where you happen to be.  You can see how Twitter can be an internet marketer's dream. Yes!

Google+ is another social networking site that has been around for a couple years, but continues to add new additional features to help people networking as easy as possible. I believe Google+ is one of the most undervalued assets that many marketers could use to network their businesses very successfully. Google continues to make Google+ as  valuable of an asset as possible for users to promote themselves, their businesses, their authorrank along with joining groups or even starting their own hang outs.  I believe that Google+ is going to starting to play a  much bigger part in page ranks and the entire social networking scene.

Like MySpace and of course the other networking social sites you need to do a little thinking to take advantage of every marketing opportunity presented there. The really great advantage of it is these individuals that follow you and you follow are very targeted potential customers for you.
In addition to Twitter and MySpace clearly as the top social networking sites it's unfeasible not to think of the following three to use for your internet marketing:

Facebook  is a huge one that currently has more members than anyone topping 800 Million.  Like MySpace, is a large scale social networking site known for featuring quite a few methods for communication and community facilitation. Facebook offers a lot of unique
applications and games that make networking much more entertaining among friends, business colleagues, connections and family members, that makes Facebook perhaps one of the top social networking sites on the web as of yet.


Digg is an additional unique form of social networking that is based on sharing media and news with other users in the community.  Digg directs their attention to allowing users to unveil news and other media, allowing other members to rate and comment on others content based on popularity. The more users "Digg" a certain piece of media or news, the more popular it will become within the community. So its a definitely important to submit interesting and unique material that members will enjoy.

 Flickr is a quite a bit different and unique form of social networking because it revolves around photo sharing.  Users create accounts and fill them with their favorite photos, and other users can leave comments. Flickr photos can be commented on, tagged, edited and shared, providing communication and networking only by sharing photography.

Livejournal is a blogging network social networking site,meaning that the members and interactions is made simple being based around blogging. Each member has a blog account, and users can join communities to express themselves and leave comments in other blogs or journals in order to network with users from the other side of the world.