Social+Tools

**//Social Tools//**- There are many social tools that we have learned from web 2.0 and they allow us to share pictures, videos, chat, video conference and keep constant communication. Many of these tools are used for entertainment, but many of them are used for business and advertisement. Many of the tools here have about one million users that communicate with others all over the world.

Anybody Out There- is a website that allows you to pose ideas and questions, and comment on other people's questions/ideas.

Facebook- Facebook helps people communicate with friends and family more efficiently. Anyone can sign up with Facebook for free to interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a social networking site that allows you to communicate through messages and direct chatting. Also you can post pictures and videos.

Formspring- Formspring is a page that you create for yourself, and people post anonymous questions on your page. You can do the same on other people's pages as well. Group Table - Grouptable was created in Orlando, Florida in 2008. Grouptable was made for students in universities and highschools to communicate and plan projects from home and over longer distances. With Group table you can connect with other people to do assignments like projects. You have your own binder that allows you to save all your data. You can also see other information that one of your classmates have saved.

Hip Chat- A free tool that can be used for work, business, and entertainment. It allows you to host and invite people to chatrooms and create topics to have conversations about. It contains a spell check and other tools.

Meebo- Meebo is a social networking site that allows you to connect with your friends. You can connect with them through msn, Facebook, aim and windows live. You can make an account that has all of these tools in it.

MySpace- MySpace is a social tool that allows you can interact with friends and share videos, songs and pictures with people you know or meet online. You are able to message and save status to let people know what you are currently doing.

media type="youtube" key="ErUp_s4UIzg" width="296" height="245" align="left" Synch Tube - reported as a hard to use tool. It allows you, and the people you invited to your chat room, watch the same video and make comments about it.

TinkrBox- TinkrBox allows people to view, read, listen, share, and store their favorite music, books, internet sites and documents.

Twitter- Twitter is a social network that is used for chatting amongst friends. It allows you to give updates to show what you are doing. Twitter allows you to follow your favorite celebrities and see what they are doing. Also businesses can advertise and you are always keeping the most updated status of friends of other people.