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UNCLASSIFIED (U) FOrums - Discussion areas on an IM tool (e.g., AOL Instant websites where people can post Messenger, Microsoft Live messages or comment on existing Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger). messages asynchronously,(i.e. IM can be a good alternative to independently of time or place). email for a rapid exchange. Problems arise,however,when (U) FRIENDS - Contacts on SNS people in a group are using different whose profiles you link to in your IM tools that do not connect. profile, thereby creating your net- work. On some sites,people have U LISTENING -In the blogosphere, to accept the link. In others,they the art of skimming feeds to see do not. what topics are currently popular, and setting up searches that (U) GROUPS - Collections of monitor when an organization is individuals withsome sense of mentioned. unity through their activities, interests, or values. They are ULISTSERV-A list of email bounded: you are either in a group addresses of people with common or not.They differ from networks interests. Software enables people which are dispersed and defined who belong to the list to send by nodes and connections messages to the group without typing a series of addresses into (U) HYPERLINK - Text, images, or the message header. graphics that, when clicked on with a mouse or activated by (U) NETwORKS - Structures defined keystrokes,will connect the user by nodes and the connections to a new website.The link is between them.In social networks, usually highlighted,underlined, the nodes are people, and the or color texted, or is a button"of connections are the relationships some type. that they have. Networking is the process by which you develop and (U) INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) : strengthen those relationships. Chatting with one person using UNCLASSIFIED 21