Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some American colleges and prepatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. 

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Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? allows you to send a small update (limited to just 140 characters) to your followers. The concept is amazingly simple and that is perhaps one of the main reasons why it has caught on like wildfire. The restriction to 140 characters has resulted in Twitter being labeled “micro blogging”. A traditional blog is a log of what somebody is up to, but in a richer, more detailed format. One of the key benefits of Twitter is that you can send and receive updates (also called tweets) via your browser, email , instant messaging clients and SMS so you can keep in touch no matter where you are.

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YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. YouTube displays a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views.

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Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Its primary goals are to help people make photos available to those who matter to them, and to enable new ways of organizing pictures. You can join Flicker for free and begin sharing images immediately. Pro accounts are available for those who want to add and display high volumes of photos.  Before Flickr came along, sharing photos meant a laborious and sometimes not very user-friendly process of creating albums, uploading them, and devising a means for people to navigate between them. Indeed, the whole concept of posting photos to the web was still based on the idea that they should come in a set, a collection called an "album." Digital photography doesn't work like that; we no longer process rolls of film, nor do we have to file away groups of images in album-sized collections.

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LinkedIn is an online network of more than $30 million experienced professionals from around the world representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals. Through your network, you can:

• Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
• Be found for business opportunities
• Search for great jobs
• Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
• Post and distribute job listings
• Find high-quality passive candidates
• Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know
  
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In December of 2008, the Fraternity launched its "Official Phi Delta Theta Facebook Application." Phi Delta Theta’s partnership with Facebook, the web’s largest networking site allows alumni and undergraduates to connect with one another through its new exclusive application; all while enjoying the countless benefits of Facebook. First introduced in 2004, Facebook is currently the 4th most visited website in the world, with 120 millions users who visit the site at least once a month. In 2008 alone, Facebook saw an influx of 70 million new users. Much of the site’s recent growth can be attributed to user-created “applications” that allow Facebook users to do everything from support philanthropic causes to view their profile from their mobile device.

With Phi Delta Theta’s Facebook application, members of the Fraternity are able to search for members using multiple categories, participate in discussions, view resources, join groups, invite friends, and view upcoming events, news items, and announcements.

To learn more about Phi Delta Theta's Facebook application launch, click here. To add the application to your Facebook page, click the button above or here.