ABSTRACT
This chapter leads through several discussions. First, social networking outline in general, and this followed by a discussion on the emergence of online social networking. Second, the several phases in the development of Internet social networking explore, and this exposure followed by an examination of dimensions of virtual versus real social action spaces. Rainie and Wellman portrayed contemporary online social networking from a societal perspective, and they identified the following general nature of social relations. The very nature of the social relations developed online through social networks, as well as their potential impact on social relations in real space. From a social perspective, online social networking permits users to bypass social, cultural, religious and political taboos on social relations in real action space. Internet social communications is both locationally and temporally flexible, since it does not require the synchronous attendance of the communicating parties, as is the case for most of real space social relations.
