People come to them to keep in contact with friends and relatives, play games, or carry out business.
It empowers each of us who use it to keep in touch with friends and family, promote our persona, etc.
Today, a good chunk of the planet logs in to the site regularly to keep in touch with friends and family.
It's to keep up with their friends, to mobilise them, to get involved in everything from politics to cleaning the local park.
"It's a great excuse to keep in touch with friends, " he said.
PeopleHub makes it easy to keep in touch with friends, providing instant access to social networks and bringing all mobile, email, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn contacts into one place.
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Complete with access to Samsung's ChatON and Hubs services, the Galaxy Mini 2 is a great social device and makes it easy to keep in touch with friends and family.
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Short of shelling out for plane tickets or enduring long train rides, there is another way to keep in touch with friends and family, no matter where they are...you can give the gift of Skype.
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Athletes from the Bahamas, Jamaica, friends that you keep with on the circuit all excited about being there.
Cannibalize old drives, look for sales online, keep an eye out for friends with neglected machines lying around.
Facebook allows us to keep up with all our friends at once and allows us not to repeat the same information ad nauseum.
The all-in-one PC provides a clutter-free work area with full desktop-equivalent performance, allowing customers to stay organized and efficient and keep up with family and friends.
Furthermore, 78% of 11 to 17-year-olds believe having a mobile has given them a better social life as it meant it was easier to keep in touch with their friends.
If Facebook is where you check in with your real-life friends and Twitter is how you keep up with current events, the Tumblr experience can be boiled down to people expressing themselves publicly.
Unlike Twitter, which focuses on real-time content, Facebook is the place where people go to keep in touch with family and friends, regardless of when the news happens.
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You may wish to keep your profile for connecting only with friends you already know and with family members.
While RIM is still banking big on the NFC-powered Music Gateway, it wasn't about to let the Z10 sit around with no new friends to keep it company.
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Can share with friends on social network or keep it private herself.
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Groups in Mango has the solution: make a group comprising those friends or family members you want to keep up with on Facebook.
But Greg Blatt, the former boss of Match and the new chief executive of IAC, a holding company that owns the dating site, says studies conducted by Match show that many people prefer to keep their dating activity separate from socialising with their friends.
He has one PC to keep track of his finances and stay connected with family and friends through email.
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Two of his high-school classmates, however, spoke about the account and said he used it to keep in touch with a close-knit group of school friends.
Two of his high-school classmates, however, told CNN about the account and said he used it to keep in touch with a close-knit group of school friends.
Facebook users love the site because they can share their personal lives with their friends and many people like to keep their professional life separate, on LinkedIn.
You can choose to keep this information private or share some or all of this data with friends and family who are supporting you, your health and lifestyle.
She said she had not made any new friends in Internet chat rooms, but used e-mail to keep up with existing ones.
Texting to a group of friends set up on my smartphone was an easy way to keep in touch with the team I work with on my SXSW blog.
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Since they have experience with rental property and have friends and family in the area to keep an eye on their house, as well as a strong rental market in their area, they feel comfortable with renting out their home.
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Keeping connected with real friends remains a challenge, despite the many social networks that keep sprouting up.
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At minimum to keep up Google would need to add Google Chat as part of the browser so that people could chat with their friends while visiting non-Google web pages.
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