1. Online Social Networking twittertwitter facebook

2. What is “online social networking”?IntroductionIntroduction

3. Online Social Networking is like an online community. It’s a place where people can share their interests with others, make new friends and have fun.IntroductionIntroduction

4. It focuses on building social networks among people. An online social network site offers its users a place to post their profiles and to share ideas, activities, events, and interests with others.IntroductionIntroduction

5. Most important of all, it provides a way for users to interact with each other, such as the instant messages. The classic examples are “Facebook” and “Twitter”.IntroductionIntroduction facebook twittertwitter Q&AQ&A

6. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. At that time, Mark was a sophomore in Harvard University.HistoryHistory facebook 1 / 3 Go back Mark Zuckerberg

7. facebook Initially, the website was used to put Harvard students’ photos and information for them to know each other quickly.HistoryHistory 2 / 3 Go back

8. facebook Therefore, the membership was limited to Harvard students. But gradually it was expanded to other college students, and finally, to anyone who has an e-mail address.HistoryHistory 3 / 3 Go back

9. facebook What’s special? Users can create their own profiles with photos, personal interests, and any other information. Furthermore, they can update their profiles to notify friends about themselves. 1 / 3 Go back

10. facebook What’s special? Users can use the “Friend Finder” tool to find their friends on Facebook, and they can also add people as friends and send them messages. 2 / 3 Go back

11. facebook What’s special? Besides, there are a lot of interesting games for users to play, such as the popular game applications “Happy Harvest” and “Farmville”. 3 / 3 Go back

12. What’s special? It is a microblogging service. It enables its users to post their instant messages on their page. In addition, they can read and reply other users' messages. These messages are called tweets. twittertwitter 1 / 3 Go back

13. What’s special? 2 / 3 twittertwitter Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 English characters or 70 Chinese characters. Tweets are visible to everyone; however, you can also restrict message delivery to your friends. Go back

14. twittertwitter What’s special? Users can make a subscription to other author’s tweets. This is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. 3 / 3 Go back

15. Q&AQ&A Have you ever used any one of the online social networking devices? Q1

16. Q&AQ&A Go back What do you often do on it? Q2

17. Q&AQ&A Go back What do you think is the best part of online social networking? Q3

18. Q&AQ&A Go back If your mom adds you as her friend, you will… Q4 ACCEPTREJECT