social network

Definition:

A social network represents a web site where people gather virtually. Generally, each person that belongs to a social network has his or her own profile page and then becomes "friends" with other members of the social networking site. Friends on the site write blog posts, add their favorite pictures, music and video, as well as write comments on other people's profile pages.

Some of the more popular social networking sites include MySpace, Facebook and Flickr.

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download

Usually used in reference to the Internet, to download something from the Internet means to transfer it from the Internet to your computer. If you install a piece of software from an Internet site, you are downloading the software to your computer.