Online Social Networking Sites

Online Social networking refers to a category of Internet applications to help connect friends, business partners, or other individuals together using a variety of tools. These online social networks are becoming increasingly popular.

Popular Social Networking Sites

Myspace is one of the most popular social networking sites in the internet today with over 1 million subscribers. Meet people from your area in the country and keep in touch. Includes blog, forums, email, groups, games and events.

Friendster is an online community much like myspace that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.


Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. Facebook is made up of lots of separate networks — things like schools, companies, and regions. Facebook is popular amongst university students. UMass Boston has a social network on this website.

You can use Facebook to:

• Share information with people you know.
• See what's going on with your friends.
• Look up people around you

Links

• List of Online Social Networking Sites