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Social Networking - Connecting With People on the World Wide Web

Social Networking is a community-based network of people with common interests.

How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List

Facebook has recently made the decision to allow you to hide your friends list, but they didn't make it easy.

How to Organize Facebook Friends

Has your Facebook wall become cluttered? It is easy to organize Facebook friends by hiding and creating custom lists.

How to Create a Custom Facebook List

It is easy to organize Facebook through a custom Facebook list once you understand how to find and use the create lists tool.

Organize Facebook: How to Use Facebook Hide and Unhide

How to organize your Facebook wall by hiding friends and applications and how to unhide friends on Facebook.

What is Facebook Connect?

Facebook Connect is a solution for integragrating a website with a user's Facebook account.

What is Stribe?

What is Stribe? It is a unique solution that allows you to create a social network on your website with minimal code, thus reducing development costs.

Why Facebook?

Facebook can be confusing if you are new to the social networking scene. So why Facebook? It is a great place to keep connected to friends and family, thus becoming your home on the web.

What is Tagged?

Tagged is a social network similar to Facebook and Myspace. Have you received an email invite to Tagged? Find out why.

Why Get Involved With Online Social Networking?

While social networking is very popular these days, some still do not understand why they might want to get involved with online social networking.

What is Twitter?

What is Twitter? A popular service with social networking, instant messaging and micro-blogging features, Twitter is still misunderstood by many people.

What is Social Networking?

An explanation of social networking including the basic architecture of a social network.

List of Social Networking Sites by Type

Social networks divided into lists by type of social network.

How to Get Started With Social Networking

How to get started with social networking by determining what you want in a social network and picking out the right social network for you.

Social Networking Basics

Social Networking Basics is an overview of social networking explaining what a social network is and the basic functions of a social network such a friends, groups, expressing yourself through media, having fun and doing business.

The Top Social Networking Sites

Social networking websites have been around since the mid-90's, but in recent years, social networking has exploded across the web. The Web 2.0 initiative has made modern social networking sites increasingly popular and easier to use than the initial wave of sites that launched in the 90's.

Tagged.com - Parental Warning

A warning to parents about Tagged.com. While initially targeted at high school students, Tagged is not altogether kid-friendly.

Social Blogging - What Is Xanga?

Xanga is a blog hosting website that combines social networking with blogging to create social blogging.

Top Social Networking Sites of General Interest

Social Networking continues to grow by leaps and bounds. The following is a list of the top social networks that do not cater to a specific theme or interest.

Top Niche Social Networking Sites

The alternative to general social networking websites are niche social networking targeted to a specific audience. This include social networking for the family, for business, for music, etc.

Top International Social Networking Sites

The top social networkings sites with a large userbase outside of the United States.

What is Facebook?

About.com guide Linda Roeder, your guide to Personal Web Pages, gives the pros and cons of Facebook, a social networking site.
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