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Article: Netting New Friends Online social networking is catching on in India in a big way with some unusual results

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December 4, 2006
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Sarin Suares, a 27-year old management executive living in Gurgaon, has over 1,500 friends from school, college and office with whom he interacts regularly. As 'friend management' can be quite challenging for many young people, the development of online social networking has revolutionised how they keep in touch. Suares uses linkedin.com for business contacts, orkut.com for friends and ryze.com for both. These are the so-called social networking sites which use the principle of six degrees of separation. People meet new friends through others and hence someone on Orkut or myspace.com can have hundreds of friends all over the world, which would not have been possible otherwise. Moreover, ...

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