Almost a decade and a half ago, the world made rapid foray into globalization. Countries began to merge their identities into one another, a mutual need began to work on them and with that the world became a village. With the advent of web space, the village has further turned into a cocoon and we are all pleasantly inside it together. There are billions of websites and internet has enabled such fast connectivity that a person is visible to all unless he wants to be hidden in a secluded corner.
Virtual Chat Rooms
Today, if you want to stay connected to your friends or relatives, there are virtual chat rooms. These provide with glorious opportunity to share your thoughts, expressions and also look to suggest what may be the latest that might be going in your life. It’s all amazing, the way we can run to our friends through the arched gateways of virtual connectivity. As an aside, the chat rooms have webcams and voice-chat services; while the former helps you to float your face to your friend sitting on the other side, the later helps in sending your voice across.
YouTube
You-tube has been a rather gallant avatar if you want to exhibit your self to the outer world. You can simply follow a procedure and upload your video on You Tube. It will immediately be available to each person across the world once he puts in the right tag or insert the right keyword. You tube also allows for feedbacks from your friends and relatives. Two things to keep an eye: your video should not be controversial and you should not upload a video timed for more than 10 minutes.
Social networking sites
Next up the line, there are many social networking sites that have come to take the right measure of the situation. It allows all starved people living geographically apart to come close to each other through a social networking space. There are quite few of them that are doing well. My Space was the pioneer. It still is the top ranker, at least in terms of craze. Then there is FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others. Google is never the one which lags behind so it has brought Friend’s Connect to answer them all.
These networking sites can be used to post one’s blog, make a social community (for instance a community of gays or a community of freelancers; it narrows down the search) you can also upload your images, videos and text links. Such HTML texts can be quite expressive just as well.
MySpace- This is the one that is also the celebrity’s favorite. Each day, you would hear from the Lindsay Lohan’s and the Paris Hilton’s. It has quite many tools which lets you connect in a more solid way with your friends. My Space feedback program is also a new wave thing. You can look to upload images very innovatively through this champion social networking site.
FaceBook- This is quite a rage with the teens. If you can secretly watch a classroom lecture, you would find at least a dozen FaceBook operating at any given time.
LinkedIn- This one is for the corporate bigwigs and firm operators; you will generally find plans, mergers, acquisitions and business deals discussed on it. In a way it is a social business networking site.
Orkut- Getting connected to friends has never been so easy till Orkut surfaced up in our lives. Though it is not as big as Facebook and MySpace in USA, with Orkut you can stay connected with your long-lost classmates and friends, and can even track down their number to reach out to them. The only problem with the site lies with its security issues.
Need to be cautious:
Hacking through proxies can be quite a danger as the hackers might toss up your most coveted plans and information publicly. It means that you may have to bear the trauma of seeing your obscene morphed image or your company’s secret dividend structure floated for all to see. Ask Sarah Palin about this and you would surely understand. This is why the sites are more than adequately fire walled.
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