Development of a Social Networking Service as a Web Application for use in the Education Sector

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In today’s world, social networking services are popular than ever. However, there isn’t a social network that is used today at an adoption level that is similar to that of Facebook or Twitter in the education sector. Current social networking applications or services have a myriad of problems that go against a user’s privacy and to make things even worse, inappropriate content widely made available on these social networking services make parents more hesitant to allow their children to log on to these sites in order to interact with their peers as part of their group coursework. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to develop a social networking web application that would resolve the grave issues centered around social networking services as of today. In pursuance of a social networking service that would create maximum utility to students and adolescents all over the world, it needs to be created after conducting interviews and surveys with them to the extent that the needs required by the targeted category of users are understood. Then, the design and the development of the service will be done with the results of the surveys in mind to make sure we comply with the users needs. With an initial prototype version up and running, we can develop the next version based on the feedback from users to ensure that the product satisfies the user’s needs and resolves the issues faced by general social networking services today.

Published In : IJCSN Journal Volume 7, Issue 2

Date of Publication : April 2018

Pages : 40-48

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Arjun Olachery : School of Computer, Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Saurabh Menon : School of Computer, Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Prashant Singhai : School of Computer, Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Swarnalatha P. : School of Computer, Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

social, network, service, web, application, education, design, development

The social networking service that can be used efficiently for the education sector has been presented. Various features that are common across multiple social networks as well as the students’ needs have been implemented. It was initially done by getting out ideas through surveys and finding out ideal features for a social network that would be of use for students and teachers alike. Then the social network was implemented using various web programming frameworks and languages in order to turn the idea into fruition. After it was made, it was evaluated according to the specifications which were all satisfied, and also complies with the users’ needs.

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