Mass Communication/Blogging

Facebook

In terms of social networking, Facebook is really the first and only stop you'll need.  With over 500 million users and growing, it is more than likely that everyone you know and meet will have a profile on this site.  What you do is, sign up for free, create a profile, update information about yourself and upload photos, and finally, find your friends and interact with them online.  Facebook has networks for virtually every school in the developed world as well as corporate networks for adults, so you can broadcast messages and narrow down friend searches exclusively to the community you are a part of.  Not only is it fun and addictive, but it is also extremely useful for mass, two-way communication.  In this day and age, having a Facebook account is almost as common as having an e-mail account.

www.facebook.com    

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Blogspot

Blogspot allows users to create private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.  One's blog acts as a public diary, in which a user may broadcast their thoughts and findings in a front page-like format.  This is perfect for one wishing to document a trip to their friends and family back home, or simply for one to have a forum by which to express their thoughts to the world.  Blogspot essentially lets anyone have their own newspaper.

www.blogspot.com

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Twitter

Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.  Twitter currently has more than 175 million users.

www.twitter.com

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