SOCIAL NETWRKING AND EDUCATION

Nowadays the social networking websites are increasingly attracting the attention of all possible users around the world. Social networking sites are helpful not only to stay in touch with friends but also beneficial for educational purposes in many ways. The present paper describes the features of various social networking sites which are useful to enhance the learning and teaching processes. The social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Myspace, Ning, Google +, Tumlr, etc. provide incredibly rich communication, pictures, audio recordings, video recordings and can be freely shared by anyone with a connection to the internet.