Social Network Services

Twitter, Facebook and Flickr

Introduction A social network service focuses on building

online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

We’ll point out the main features of Twitter, Facebook & Flickr and demonstrate how to sign up and create a profile.

How many members use these or other social networking services?

Overview Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets users

send & read messages of up to 140 characters, called tweets.

Facebook lets users create a profile, add friends, post & read status updates & interact with friends through various apps.

Flickr is a photo-sharing website and online community that includes a photo organizing application

Twitter Features Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets users send

& read messages of up to 140 characters, called tweets. To read another’s messages, you “follow” that user.

Accounts are public by default but can be made private, allowing approval of one’s followers.

Associated websites expand Twitter’s features. Twitter has been used to spread news of the San Diego

Fires and the Iran election & is used by individuals & businesses.

Demo at http://help.twitter.com/portal

Facebook Features Facebook lets a user create a profile and interact

with friends. Users can interact by updating their status,

uploading photos (unlimited) and videos, writing on a friend’s wall, and reading the news feed from friends on their home page.

Privacy - share with Friends only, with Friends & Friends of Friends or with Everyone.

Other apps include Notes, Chat, Events, Groups, Networks, Gifts.

Flickr Features Flickr is a photo & video sharing website, web

services suite and online community Users can interact by uploading photos, joining

and submitting photos & comments to groups Photos can be shared with Family, Friends,

Contacts, Groups or Anyone Flickr includes Organizr, which lets you edit, tag

and group your photos

Summary To sign up, etc.:

Twitter – twitter.com Facebook – facebook.com Flickr – flickr.com

Where to Get More Information - Twitter Some Twitter-associated websites:

Search Twitter – search.twitter.com (try LCCU) Directory & Search – WeFollow.com Trending Topics – twitter.com/trendingtopics What’s happening now = hashtags.org Sharing photos – twitpic.com Learning the lingo –

Business.twitter.com/twitter101/learning Desktop for Twitter & Facebook – seesmic.com

For more see http://twitter.com/downloads and http://twitter.com/goodies

Where to Get More Information – Facebook & Flickr Facebook “Getting Started Guide at

http://www.facebook.com/help/new_user_guide.php

Flickr “Magical Feature Tour” at http://www.flickr.com/tour/

Where to Get More Information – General Search for Wikipedia articles on “Social

network services”, and on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or any other social networking website that interests you.