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Web Feeds
A Web Feed is a service that informs you when a website of your interest has new content to display.
Web feed helps you to stay updated with blogs, newsgroups and other websites. You can get all updates
at one place and visit the related website as per your leisure. Web feeds are also called Really Simple
Syndication feeds or RSS feeds.
The software that allows you access web feeds is called a Feed Reader. You must specify the websites or
topics of your interest in the feed reader by subscribing to the related sites.

Some popular web feed reader programs are Feedly, Feedbin, and NewsBlur.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

A Social Networking site is an online platform where users create their personal profiles to interact with
others to maintain personal and business relationships. Social Networking sites are used by people to
talk to other people, share ideas and interests or make new friends and clients. Some popular social
networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Facebook
Facebook is one of the most popular social
networking site and service that allows users
to post comments, share photographs and
links to news or other interesting content
on the web, play games, chat live, and even
stream live video.
Mark Zuckerberg, a student of Harvard
University, US founded Facebook, in 2004 for
the students of Harvard University only. Later,
it was extended to other universities and then
to the general public.

Anyone above 13 years of age who has a valid email address can create an account to become a registered
user of Facebook.

Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging
service, created by Jack Dorsey in 2006. It allows users
to stay in contact with each other and know what is
going on right now.
You can register to a Twitter account with your existing
email account. Once you have registered, you can
communicate with your friends or followers by sending

short messages called tweets. Each tweet is limited to 280 characters and may contain photos, videos,
and links. Many companies use Twitter to promote their products.

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