Online Social Networks and Media Sharing Web Sites More Popular than Ever

Do you ever wonder what your friends are doing? What about your friends' friends? The popularity of online social networks has increased dramatically in recent years. Online social networks, such as those listed in Figure 7, allow you to create a personalized profile that others are able to view online. These profiles may include information about you

such as your hometown, your age, your hobbies, and hires. You also may create links to your friends' pages, messages for individual friends, or bulletins for all of friends to see. Online social networks are great places not] only to keep in touch with your friends, but to reconnect1 old friends and meet new friends!

 If you would like to post pictures and videos and do: require the full functionality of an online social network, might consider a media sharing Web site, which is a type of online social network. Media sharing Web sites such as Yc  and Phanfare allow you to post media, including photos and videos, for others to view, print, and/or Media sharing Web sites, which may be free or charge a fee; provide a quick, efficient way to share photos of your last vacation or videos of your family reunion.