You often get to see social networking sites there are many that are being used, each with different purpose, & advantages. The purpose of social networking sites is to connect to friends, increase in the number of friends, to explore various cultures of the world, etc. Some of them even have chat rooms, online forum for discussion, blogs, etc. These are features given to user to increase the usability. No doubt there are many sites for the same purpose of social networking, are they all good? The answer is a big no, not all are even properly designed. I am not reviewing each of the sites that I know.

1. Facebook
2. Orkut
3. Hi5
4. Myspace
5. Morange
6. Mxit(mobile)
7. Mig33
8. Stop.pk
9. Hikut
10. Bebo
11. Classmates.com
12. Perfspot
13. Flixster
14. Habbo
15. Myyearbook
16. Student.com

We use computers every day; it’s an essential part of our life now. What are the things that we actually do using it? That’s a question one should ask him/her self. Majority of the people are not computer professionals. The things that are done by a normal user can include:

1. Surfing the net: Mostly people use computer to surf the net, chat, send e-mails, increase social networking by sites such as facebook, orkut, hi5, etc.
2. Watch movies, cartoons, animes, and series; most of the people use computers for solely entertainment purposes.
3. Gamers use computers to play games, games are played wither single player that is against the computer or against other players with the help of a fast internet connection.
4. To burn CD’s , DVD’s of personal data, music, etc. Burning refers to the process of copying Information from your hard disk drive to a CD/ DVD.
5. To create personal documents using software’s such as Ms-Office, Open Office, etc. Documents such as presentations, word proccesing files, spread sheets, webpages, etc.
6. To listen to music.
7. Reading news on the net.
8. Dowloading softwares, music, etc.
9. To participate in online discussion forum such as forums, blogs, etc.

As a user becomes professional he/she might get more experienced and use of a computer increases. A few things that a more experienced person such as a developer or designer can do using a computer:

1. Develop software’s using highly professional Programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, J#, etc. These languages have a lot to them. Allowing developers to develop highly qualified and nice software’s that is all the software’s that you are using in normal use, let it be for any purpose.
2. Develop standardized webpage’s for people using HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JSP, ASP, etc.
3. Design graphics using powerful editing software’s such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel draw, etc. This is often the case; all the art work you see in advertisements is done using this software’s.
4. To develop 3d animations, movies such as the Shrek, Madagascar, etc are made in software’s such as 3d studio max, Maya, etc.
5. To edit movies, videos or create custom movies. This is done in software’s such as Adobe premiere, after effects, Windows movie maker etc.
6. To engineer complicated equipments.

I am sure there are other uses of a computer that a normal user has but I could only think of these. So keep reading and I am sure you will learn a lot.