But as social network site (SNS) users become more savvy, it may also present challenges.
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Jay, from Clacton, died in September at a party in Colchester which was organised via the social network site.
The pinboard-style photosharing social network site said it was only sending the e-mail to people who had used Zendesk and were possibly compromised.
The report points out that in 2011, 60% of internet users were members of a social network site, a huge surge in usage, up 43% from 2007.
Facebook announced today Graph Search, a new social search engine that crawls private information (photos, places, interests) that people share on the social network site.
On Wednesday, she will be joined by the Duke of York in east London to visit the offices of creative agency Mother and business social network site Yammer.
He married the 27-year-old Chan on May 20 in a private ceremony at their home, during the same week that he turned 28 and stock for the social network site began trading publicly.
Scot Paul di Resta had his first taste of the new Force India which he will drive in his debut season and when the team stopped for lunch, he had managed a best of 1:22.945, then the ninth fastest time, after what the team said on the social network site Twitter was due to work on brakes, set-up and tyre evaluation.
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His social-network site was growing fast, but, at the age of twenty-three, he felt ill-equipped to run it.
David Sacks, who left PayPal in 2002 and now runs Yammer, a social-network site for businesses, met Thiel at Stanford, where they were members of the same eating club.
The social network's site governance page also has a new article explaining some of its upcoming policy changes in layman's terms, which eases readers into the language it uses to describe how it shares information with affiliates, clarifies user content ownership and promises not to remove certain privacy controls.
The company has been looking to redesign the site as part of a transformation from a social networking focused site to a network for promoting music and video content.
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Several students also became active participants on the ReGeneration Network: a social networking site with more than 270 youth members.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world, In this site you can build a network of friends and communicate as often as you wish no matter where the friends are located.
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The site is now the biggest social network in countries ranging from Indonesia to Colombia.
The mobile-ad push is crucial given that more than half of the social network's 900 million users access the site on mobile devices.
More things to come include a deeper integration with Facebook that will let users build a top-10 list from within the social network, and a mobile version of the site.
Now, the site attracts approximately 600 visitors per month, the auctioneer claims, though since the release of the movie "The Social Network, " which mentions FaceMash, the site has received more than 1, 000 hits per day.
The social network has a split personality when it comes to games, many users love social games on the site, but many also hate them.
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But OpenSocial's huge network may create a bigger target for social networking site hackers than has ever existed before, says Adam Nash, senior director of products at business networking site LinkedIn.
"The second you start looking to be 'cool, ' you're dead, " says trendsetter Kevin Rose, the tech whiz behind a host of "cool" products, including social-bookmarking Web site Digg and online video network Revision3.
Despite a few outages in the past few months, Facebook continues to zip along as the fastest social network in terms of average response time for the site, according to a report by web analytics company AlertSite.
At a recent business conference, I listened to Barbara Pantuso, who is the co-founder and CEO of Hey Neighbor, talk about how her site allows users to create a social network from only those in their neighborhood.
Ms. Heller, 36, is CEO of the invitation-only social network, which began nine years ago as a site where fancy people could trade tips on art openings in London or samba nights in Reykjavik. ("Facebook for the few, " as Ms. Heller put it with a sigh.) An invitation to A Small World was once highly coveted, but the site's social currency has waned in the Twitter age.
LinkedIn has taken its time to achieve stellar status but as comScore pointed out this week the business network site reached the number 2 spot for social networks in the USA in June (as measured by unique visitors), overtaking former social network darling, MySpace.
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Facebook, the largest social network in the world, is the latest high-profile site to be hacked this year.
In a Pew study released last month, 61 percent of Facebook users said they took breaks of several weeks from the social network, and 27 percent said they plan to use the site less this year.
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In addition to their letter to the social network, the groups also called on advertisers to boycott the site, noting that their advertising appeared alongside user-created pages showing images of violence towards women that were "shared, boasted and joked about".
Muxlim's streaming video sister site, Muslim.tv, and its social network, Muslimspace.com, are growing quickly, but the majority of the portal's visitors are drawn by its file-sharing service, which El-Fatatry says is largely used for sharing videos like documentaries, faith-centric lectures and ceremonies.
In the year to come, security professionals are warning of bank code-stealing exploits that are much slicker and more convincing--hidden in guises as harmless as a banner ad on a reputable Web site or a message from a friend on a social network.
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