Since MySpace became so popular, social network services have been extremely influential to the businesses and general public. Let's review once again what social network services are.

Their focus is simply building online social networks for communities of people who have common interests to share, or who are interested in exploring the interests of others, and to create such an environment, forum based software is used.

The services are web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, tools like live chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion forum, and so on.

The core service of social networking is to assist users to find and connect with new friends. MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are offering various tools for this purpose. Hi5 is popular in parts of Europe, Google's Orkut in Brazil, and Friendster is the most widely used social network service in Asia.

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