All the young people are doing it, and some of the not so young people are as well.
Social networking allows you to keep in touch with friends and family, as well as to get in touch with people who share your interests and your ideas.
For businesses, there is nothing quite like social media networking.
Yes, it's true.
Social media networking is one of the best ways that you can gain clients, their trust and get insight for your particular target market.
It might not seem like it is something that would actually work for you, but in reality, it is.
The way it works is quite simple.
All social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others, allow you to set up a profile for yourself.
You can enter information, upload photos and other types of info, and customize the way that your profile or site looks to the public.
It is like having your own website -without having to pay the fees for the site or set up expensive websites that might take a lot of time.
You don't have to worry about writing the code for the website, and your profile is already set up for you - all you have to do is add the pertinent and interesting information.
Also, unlike running a regular website, there is a chance to network with these social networking sites.
When you have your profile set up, the next step is to add friends to it - which means adding other people who have the same type of profile.
These are usually displayed in an area of your site that lists your friends.
Once you have made that connection, you can travel back and forth between the sites of your friends and your own site.
Networking is easy in this way.
If you add a bunch of people who are either your clients or your potential clients, and then surf through their friend lists, you can probably find a few people who you can add as friends and have as potential clients, as well.
Again, you can look through the friend lists of those people, and so on.
It is a never ending process.
Also, the social media networking sites allows you to do searches for things that are relevant to you.
Therefore, if you are looking for a certain age group, gender, or even a group that is interested in the same things as you, you can search for people and add them to your own site.
This gives you unlimited ways of finding new clients and networking with the clients that you already have.
Social networking sites are not just for the kids to play around with anymore.
They are great tools for meeting people, making connections and deepening the know, like, trust factor - which is exactly what you want to be doing.