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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. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.
While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, proprietary encapsulated services gained popularity in the first decade of the 21st century.
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America;Nexopia (mostly in Canada);Bebo, Hi5, StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), iWiW (mostly in Hungary), Tuenti (mostly in Spain), Decayenne, Tagged, XING, Badoo and Skyrock in parts of Europe;Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster, Mixi, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands and Areapal in India.
There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests , but this has led to some concerns about privacy.
一個社會網路服務主要集中在建立在線社區的人誰共同利益和/或活動,或誰有興趣探索的利益和活動等。 大部分的社會網路服務的網路基礎 ,並提供多種方式為用戶進行互動,如電子郵件和即時信息服務。
社交網路鼓勵新途徑,交流和共享信息。社交網站正在使用約有數百萬人。
雖然可以說,電子郵件和網站是大部分要素的社會網路服務,專有的封裝服務,贏得了聲望,在第一個十年的21世紀。
主要類型的社會網絡服務是那些含有類部門(如前學校或同學年),是指與朋友連接(通常與自我介紹)和一個推薦系統與信任。現在流行相結合的方法很多,其中與臉書(facebook)全球廣泛使用,MySpace的 ,Twitter的和"百度"是最廣泛使用在北美,Nexopia(主要在加拿大 ); Bebo,HI5,StudiVZ(主要是德國 ),iWiW(主要在匈牙利),Tuenti(主要在西班牙),Decayenne,Badoo上 和騰訊公司在歐洲部分地區; 的Orkut和HI5在南美洲和中美洲 ; 和支援Friendster,Mixi, Multiply, Orkut , 無名小站 , Xiaonei和Cyworld在亞洲和太平洋島嶼和Areapal在印度。
也有一些嘗試這些服務的標準化,以避免重複項需要和利益的朋友,但是這導致了一些擔心隱私。