Social networking is quite an old concept but it has got a brand new dimension in the present era of the Internet. Humans are social beings and now we all belong to some society. You will find very few people on the planet who lives their whole life in total solitude. Hence by social network we can always refer to a group of people who have something in common. For example if you are a member of a club you fit in with the social network formed by the members of that club, including you. Again if you’re an activist of a political party you actually form a social network with all the other activists of that party. Thus social networking exists within our world in one way or the other since the time humans became civilized.

From the advent of the Internet, we now have got a brand new new perspective to social networking. Some websites came up with an idea of online social networking. The procedure is actually very simple. You have to register online using your email id to those websites and you become a member. When you are a member you are in the social network of all the other members of that website or more precisely that social networking site you can say.

These social networking sites work on the premise of the networking theory. The individual members are treated as nodes and the relationship among these members are the threads connecting the nodes. For instance, once you are member of a social networking site you can create your own online community with all your school friends. Only you and your friends may have access to that and you along with the other members in this particular community can exchange thoughts, ideas, jokes, pictures and much more. Thus both you and your friends are the nodes and the relationship thread is that all of you had studied within the same school.

The advent of social networking through the Internet has caused a serious stir within the whole world. Keeping and getting in touch with friends and family scattered in various places was never easier.