DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SITE

Abstract

Individuals are grouped into particular groupings, such as tiny rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, through social networking. Although social networking can take place in person, particularly at work, in colleges, and in high schools, it is most prevalent online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people. Social network is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. Social network provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships. Social Networking Website project itself is a huge project comprising various features like profile updating, friend’s list organization and various other application to enhance the overall look and feel of the website. However, in this project I am basically working on two essential feature or module (PROFILE MANAGEMENT & FRIENDS ORGANIZATION). PROFILE MANAGEMENT module maintains the profile of a user like name, like, comments, gender, status etc. FRIENDS ORGANIZATION module maintains the friend list, handles request and sends request to the other user. Profiles and Friends lists are two key features on social network sites. The third is a public commenting feature ('likes', 'Comments''). This feature allows individuals to like and comments on their Friends' profiles. These comments are displayed prominently and visible for anyone who has access to that profile.