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Question 1: What are social networking sites?

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Question 1:  What are social networking sites?

Answer: Social networking sites are websites that let people socialise online; send messages to one another; share interests and information; chat; meet people; and post information, photos and videos about themselves for others to look at.

Some well-known social networking sites are MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Bebo.

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