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ALMOST everyone uses social media these days. Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

Social networking, on the other hand, is the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.

Many posts on Facebook, tweets on Twitter, others upload their photos on Instagram or write a blog on Tumblr. People also share music and videos on YouTube. These are the top social networking sites.

The main purpose of social networking is really to connect with family and friends. It feels great to be able to talk via Facebook or Skype with them every day especially when they are abroad. It also feels good when you find a friend online whom you havent seen for quite some time.

Another good use of social networking is to market your services, your products and your activities. It really works! People can easily comment or reply to it. You can invite your friends to a party or event via Facebook. You can post about your advocacies or share quotes and other important reminders about your cause. Some also post things they sell and for sure, they find buyers.

Blogging is one way to express oneself through photography or through writing. Sometimes those who cannot communicate well in spoken words are very good in writing and art. Tumblr is usually the social networking for blogging. Facebook also has an option to write notes where you can share your thoughts. Well, some write it as posts.

Its also easy to get information in the web Mass schedules, movie times, definitions, phone numbers and more.

There are also websites and applications where you can read about your favorite cartoon character or actor. You can play games. You can download books. You can shop, too!

We can also connect with other organizations. You can feel the oneness of celebrations like World Mental Health Day (every October 10) or Mothers Day (May). We feel the spirit of celebrating as a nation or worldwide.

However, there are also disadvantages on using the Internet. Sometimes the friends we added are not really our real friends. There is also an issue on privacy. Some people just post what they like that they tend to forget that the Internet is a public world.

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Social networking site Bebo has been resurrected and its brought peoples embarrassing, mid-2000s photos back from the digital graveyard along with it.

Now available as an app, Bebo relaunched just before Christmas, but has waited until now to release the old photos.

The good news is the images arent posted publicly upon request the company will email a zip file to the account holder which contains images from their original profile.

Unfortunately, new Bebo doesnt allow you to give love to other users a feature many people were awaiting the return of.

Instead, the app encourages you to message other users using quirky hashtags, personalised images and Bebojis Bebo-fied emoticons.

In a statement, Bebo said its new iteration was for people who dont take life too seriously.

Everybody else is trying to be very serious about social networking, which feels a bit strange to us, it said.

Bebo began in 2005 and, at the height of its popularity in 2008, was sold to AOL for $850m. After losing most of its users to Facebook, it shut down in 2013.

Then, around 18 months ago, Bebo made a brief foray into video messaging apps with BLAB named as one of Apples Best New Apps. This initiative soon lost steam, with users gravitating towards the like of Snapchat and Whatsapp instead.

Last year, the original founders, a husband and wife team, bought Bebo back, paying only $1m (880,000), and got to work on its reinvention.

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In the late 13th century, the American southwest was hit by a major drought. When resources were exhausted and agriculture failed, some groups of people were forced to migrate out of the region. Entire areas of northern Arizona were depopulated.

Other groups also survived by turning outward, but not to a new home. Instead, they reached out to neighboring communities and formed social networks across greater distances. These networks created a support system for people in the region to rely upon for their livelihood. And they allowed cultures, such as the Hopi, to persist in a time of crisis.

A recent University of Arizonastudyfound evidence of these networks in hundreds of thousands of ceramic and obsidian objects from archaeological sites in parts of pre-Columbian Arizona and New Mexico. With a grant from the National Science Foundation, the university and a Tucson-based organization called Archaeology Southwest made a joint effort to catalogue the objects in the Southwest Social Network database, a digital archaeological archive.

Researchers examined objects in the database from 1200-1450, and found that there was a high proportion of objects with similar styles of production across hundreds of locations. This suggested that not only were goods exchanged, but the skills required to reproduce those goods were spread across the region and transferred between generations.

What was novel about this study was that we were actually able to demonstrate not just that people used social connection, but how people changed their networks through crisis management, says Lewis Borck, a University of Arizona researcher who co-authored the study. People were finding communities that were farther away.

An upcoming paper that details the results of the study says that the findings are useful for understanding disaster response in modern times as well.

Social networks are incredibly important in understanding how people survive hard times whether natural disasters or conflicts saidElizabeth Ferris, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of theBrookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement. For example, about 80 percent of those who are pulled out of the rubble after earthquakes are saved by neighbors and local groups.

The study also takes on a broader understanding of social network to include the relationships formed between large communities, like when community networks in the American southwest resembled interstate relations.

Were looking at how a community or multiple communities are going to draw from each other, said Borck. You might look at it in terms of how some insular governments or insular countries will have a harder time during a crisis, whereas countries in the EU or the US will have more help.

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Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) February 09, 2015

While theres no shortage of social networking apps these days, an overwhelming number of them suffer from an essential and inescapable weakness: they simply arent very social. That is, they dont enable users to go outside of their small inner circle so they can enlarge and enhance their social life. However, one new app is poised to change all of that by promising to put the social back in social networking: Byber

Created by Byber LLC and available at no cost, Byber lets users meet fun and interesting new people, connect with friends, and explore what their neighbourhood has to offer -- and all through the comfort and convenience of their mobile device.

While theres plenty to like about Byber, there are two core elements that make it unique, impressive, and well worth the no-cost download: versatility and functionality.

In terms of versatility, Byber is ideal for all kinds of users, from those in the mood to meet someone new, to those on an urban adventure, to those organizing a spontaneous or scheduled get together with friends, and the list goes on.

In terms of functionality, Byber has a suite of built-in tools that make it easy for users to enjoy the app however and whenever they want. For example, users can tap the:

Plus, users can create a custom profile that includes their picture and brief bio (e.g. job, status, interests), as well as any pending drink or event RSVP requests. They can also connect with friends and fans directly from the app via Facebook, Twitter, SMS and email.

We created Byber to bring a whole new level of fun, excitement and adventure back into the social networking world, commented Christopher Keir of Byber LLC. And just as importantly, we made it extremely easy and simple. Its the only app that users need to connect with old friends and make new ones, as they enlarge and enhance their social life every day!

Byber, the fun new no-cost social networking app from Byber LLC, is available now for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch from the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/app/byber/id937067093. An Android version is currently in development and will be available soon from Google Play.

Additional app information, including a video trailer, is available at http://www.byberapp.com/

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