Humans are social beings by nature. They cannot sit aloof at any place for quite long. They need someone to talk to. So, this is the main concept behind creating Social Networking sites.

Social Networking is described as linking of people among groups (or communities) for want of exchanging information, views which may also include sharing of photos, videos.

Benefits of Social Networking:

1. This inturn will boost your business revenue.
2. People start to connect to each other through the social networking site by offering more about themselves, their own content.
3. Here, there is an Exchange of Information. Communities are formed who share interests and activities.
4. There is no geographical barriers for buiding relationships.
5. Group interaction is there. There is always something new to see & learn within these kind of sites.
6. It is helpful even to gather information on others.
   
7. It helps to enhance the collective knowledge of people within a company & thus make people act on it in time.
8. Intensify Creativity.
9. These sites help in creating brainstorming sessions.
10. Social networking sites involve lower costs.
11. Creates Credibility & Trust.

Why choose Begonia Information Systems for Social Networking?

Begonia information Systems has the capabilities, experience and expertise for developing well designed social networking portals using all the points described above & thus help in increasing your company sales and in generating leads.

Good examples for social networking sites are www.webstudentguide.com & www.Ful2.com.

Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research,has announced that April’s top 10 social networking sites collectively grew 47 percent year over year,increasing from an unduplicated unique audience of 46.8 million last year to 68.8 million in April 2006, reaching 45 percent of active Web users.“Social networking sites are the reality television of the Internet,”. The content is relatively inexpensive for publishers to produce, and social networking is not a craze that will disappear. If anything, it will become more ingrained in mainstream sites,but sites should provide users with distinct content they can identify with.

MySpace, which has attracted significant media attention of late, topped the list with 38.4 million unique visitors and a remarkable year-over-year growth rate of 367 percent .

Blogger took the No. 2 spot, garnering 18.5 million unique visitors and growing 80 percent year over year,
This was followed by Classmates Online with 12.9 million unique visitors and a 10 percent year-over-year increase.
Newcomer YouTube and the more established MSN Groups rounded out the top five, with 12.5 million and 10.6 million unique visitors, respectively.

Yahoo Groups attracted 9.1 million users with a growth rate of 11% was in the 7 position respectively.

MySpace easily remained the category leader with $58.7 million users, but has only grown 3% since last year. No. 2 Facebook is up a healthy 56% over the last year to 22.5million.

LinkedIn was the fastest-growing social networking site in April, with traffic increasing 361% to 8.7 million unique visitors from $1.9million a year ago, according to comScore.

LinkedIn was followed by Bebo & Xing respectively.