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You are a member of at least one social networking site - be it Orkut, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, Bebo or some other. You are a member of one or more of them. It makes one wonder, what is it about these sites that make it so desirable to have a place for yourself there.

On a very basic level, social network sites is a list of friends, family and other types of contacts. It is just an extension of your life. You have friends and family in your real life (not to say that online is not real), and you connect with them in various ways for various purposes.

You want to change and move to a new house? Call your friends and drop them a word. Very soon you will have a list of houses you can move in to as your choices. And how many times have you suggested a friend to another when they wanted a roommate? We seek contacts and store them just in case that we might need them at some point in future.

Having a network can some times me more of an asset that having something tangible. And it comes as no surprise that this has extended to the online world.

The internet might have made the world a smaller place, but it is these social networking sites that have brought people of common interests closer.

In few following posts, I will be trying to analyze these social networking sites, and just the people networks in general, so that we can have a better understanding of them.