Social Networking: How Many Accounts Does One Need?

Have you ever thought about the great amount of social networks available in the internet today?

Maybe you just use them for fun, to connect with old friends and make new ones, but many people use the internet and specially the social networks to make business connections; either way, you should learn how to manage your online social life.

The biggest hype at the moment is with both facebook and twitter.

While facebook is a fully interactive social network, that allows you to virtually share any piece of information on your wall, from pictures to video, to your latest scores in the endless number of games and quizzes available and any link you find interesting , while allowing your friends to “like”, comment or share your findings on their own walls. The concept is highly interactive and your own wall works like a highly functional blog. Facebook stetted a higher standard on social networking and brought web 2.0 to a new level. Its a great platform both for mundane activities and business ones alike

, many corporations have found that their facebook pages attracts a great number of traffic and they are indexed by the search engines.

Twitter is a completely different thing; all you can share with your friends are links and phrases of text. In your own page you can only have one photo and you want to share more, you need to “twit” the links; this is called micro blogging, because there’s limit of characters to what you can write; its great to keep your friends updated on what you’re doing and it’s a mix of facebook’s status updates with text messaging into the world wide web; it has also shown valuable to many companies businesswise, allowing for great professional contacts to be made.

Now that you know what are the best social networks, it might become easier to manage your online social life and don’t get lost in all the many options available. More on this topic will follow in future blog posts.