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Social networking is to overcome the Internet, and the two leaders in this growing market, Facebook and Twitter. Every site has built community of millions of users and developers in a few years, and they fight with each other to become the top destination for web users want to share information with friends and colleagues.

Facebook was launched in February 2004, drew 135.4 million unique visitors to its website in April 2010 for a whopping 3.2 billion total visits, according to Compete, an analysis firm. Twitter was launched in March 2006, attracted 21.5 million unique visitors in April 2010 to 147,400,000 total visits.

Facebook is clearly the most popular social networking site, and it trails only Google, the Internet site with the most visitors. If you do not count the YouTube video sharing service as a social network, so Twitter is firmly in second place, far ahead of another rival LinkedIn, a business networking site, there were almost 13 million months of visitors in April 2010.

While Facebook has a huge lead by the numbers, a growing user backlash on personal preferences could threaten the area's dominance.

Facebook has tried to deal with Twitter's rise in various ways. Aside from trying to buy Twitter autumn of 2008, Facebook added @ labeling in September 2009 and created a "Lite" version that looked like Twitter, but Facebook closed "Lite" service down in April 2010 after less than one year.

Most significantly, Facebook rolled out new privacy settings that make more use of public content, and therefore more like Twitter, where the content is public by default. But this strategy backfired on Facebook, where users complain that privacy controls are too complicated to understand and actually make it harder to hide personal information from non-friends. Facebook responded in May 2010 with a new set of privacy controls, but it is still unclear whether this will satisfy the guard users.

Twitter has not had to deal with the same type of privacy backlash because the company has always made it clear that the tweets are meant to be public. Users have the option to "authenticate" supporters, which prevents most of the public to see their tweets, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Twitter has its own problems. Downtime is frustrated users on many occasions, although this was less prevalent in 2010. Twitter can also be an effective vehicle for spreading viruses, especially with the shortened links that hide the original source.

In fact plagued many types of security threats both Facebook and Twitter, including stolen, worm attacks, phishing, spam and botnets, as IT managers to be vigilant in order to increase employee use of Web sites.

Despite these security and privacy risks, Facebook and Twitter is undoubtedly rising. These rival sites attracts attention from competitors, as seen in Google's unveiling of buzz that brings Facebook and Twitter-like status updates to Gmail.

Many Internet users to log on both Facebook and Twitter because of the sites' various strengths, and because they want to separate a group of leaders from the others. But Facebook and Twitter leaders know that many people simply do not have the time or patience for more than a social networking site, and the battle for market share will only grow more contentious as the economic performance will be higher.

Sachin Tendulkar has connected Twitter. Cricket God sent his first speech on Tuesday night: "Finally, the original SRT on Twitter n the first thing I want to do is to wish my generation the best in windies."

A Sachin fan happy with the latest news tweeted motivation Lines Pt Nehru, "At midnight the fight, which most Indians slept, Sachin joined Twitter."

Sachin's Twitter ID is http://twitter.com/sachin_rt.His first tweet read, "Finally the original SRT on Twitter n the first thing I want to do is to wish my colleagues the best in the Windies."

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was among the first to receive Sachin Tendulkar on Twitter. She wrote that God Cricket has joined Twitter, and there is a reason to rejoice. Her view has been echoed by many fans of cricket player. Atul Kasbekar, one of his friends expressed their joy in the occasion. In cricket player has received more than 20,000 followers on Twitter previously, and the number is growing by leaps and boundaries.

Some fans of Sachin Tendulkar consideration it was a fun game of a cheat. But as Zaheer Khan Teammate confirmed the genuineness of his Twitter account, the queries dissolved. Sachin Tendulkar has also purchased a BlackBerry phone recently and he uses it to right of entry the internet and post Tweets almost certainly.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter....If I were more technologically and digitally inclined I could name a few more, but my point is that social networking is the new life, not real, not fake, somewhere in between. Human beings don't need human interaction anymore when they can spend hours and lifetimes in front of a computer screen promoting their super cool alter ego. If you can't detect the tone of sarcasm I have so blatantly put in that line, I consider you a lost cause, trapped in a digital world of LOL's and smiley faces.

Someone actually said to me once "TMI!", excuse me? After a very puzzled face and many a web savvy stare, I was told that it means Too Much Information. Since when did it become acceptable to communicate to people in web language? Here's one for you....WTF. No explanation needed, if you're reading this blog, I'm 99 percent sure you know your way around the world of the internet and the cultures and rules that follow closely behind it.

A friend of mine passed away, not so long ago, friend is maybe a little strong, but he was a friend on Facebook, that counts right? Sarcasm, the only tool I love and one that's slated as the lowest form of wit. Go figure. So he dies, people are mourning, funeral preparations are under way and one of the many village idiots that roam our real planet (earth by the way), says in a very sad and withdrawn tone "What should we do about his facebook account?" to my horror another responded "Don't worry (insert name-please feel free to use any name you can think-I can think of a few)Facebook memorializes accounts of deceased people, his parents just need to get hold of Facebook and his account will be left open for comments from friends...." It was at this stage that I blanked out, I think it was my brain's way of protecting itself from mindless facebook drones.

I have a facebook account, I'll be honest but I can assure you that when I die, the last thing I want is a page memorializing me, I'm all for shrines but I'm a little too modest for that. Just send me a virtual high five and press delete and I'll make my way along the digital river Styx to the recycle bin. I also don't feel the need to spend my time, tweeting, the thought of explaining to a person who actively uses their mind that I'm tweeting makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

So why you wonder, do I even have a facebook account if I am so against the new order? Ill tell you, morbid fascination, Like many of you I've been sucked into the vortex of people's lives, a virtual voyeur. Does it make me proud to say that? Of course not, but it's the truth, the real truth, not something fabricated for more friend invites. Like an addict, I too will have to endure cold turkey, simply to enjoy the forgotten pastime of coffee and a chat, face to face, the innocent touch of hands, the pat on a shoulder, instead of the cold, hard keys of a keyboard. The world is outside, dare you to shut down?

I mentioned a few days ago that I had recently started a mini/micro- blog using Twitter and that I'd probably add an RSS feed to this blog. Well, I just added it and you can find it near the top of the right column. I've taken the opportunity to amend the look and feel of my Twitter page to make it more compatible with this blog, for the the time I am in Spain, although the style will probably

I have just updated the header message at the top of my blog in anticipation of my departure tomorrow, almost exactly 24 hours from now, for about three months in Spain, to escape the tail end of the British winter and enjoy the early Spring-like weather in Murcia over coming weeks.I'll probably be blogging here rather more frequently during my time in Spain of course than I am accustomed to when