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Did you know that Facebook has the option of commenting on photos or quizzes on the Home Page which makes it very user friendly. Even Friend suggestions are sent and shown on the Home Page. Other requests sent by your friend will also be shown. Any friend requests are also shown on the Home Page. Moreover the quizzes that the people have taken and their results are also displayed. This prompts the user also to take up that quiz. Facebook has another feature of Applications. These are mostly games and can be added to the profile. Facebook supports 64 languages. The number of people who are online are also shown. Even gifts can be sent to your friends by paying $1. The web-site acts as a platform between you and your friends.

The above mentioned features are just a few of Facebook's features. It's said that too much of something is not good for the mind and body and this applies to networking too. Since it is getting more and more interesting day by day, youngsters get addicted to this site and even waste a lot of time and money which should be avoided.

Facebook - a social networking site is a perfect example of a Web 2.0 site. The basic ingredient that makes up a Web 2.0 site is that it has User Generated Content (UGC) which means that it does not have any original content of its own but everything is generated by different users.

Facebook maintains profiles of various people and enables the people to become friends of others by the option of adding them as friends. Moreover it is so transparent in the sense that a friend of yours can view your photos that you have uploaded, can comment on them, check out your friends, write on your wall, check what others have written on your wall, etc. It is this feature which makes it very interesting. As the person logs in, by default, all updates about his/her friends are shown on the home page. On skimming through, one gets an idea on what is going on in his/her friend's life by looking at the changed status message or the uploaded pictures. These are just some of the basic features of Facebook. Advanced features will be discussed on my next post.

For people who love taking pictures, looking at them or uploading them - you have Flickr. LinkdIn - a job portal, Twitter, hi5, Orkut are all examples of social networking sites. E-bay is a site meant for e-shopping and Amazon for buying books. Many web-sites are available for downloading movies - eg:- bitTorrent. Then there are forums where people can post queries and get solutions and blogging websites like the e-blogger in which people can write anything and everything that is happening in their life.

The above mentioned websites are just a small chunk of web applications present on the Internet. There are many more which make the people spend time on the Internet almost 24X7. At this point of time, life is unimaginable without the Internet!