Abstract:
Social networking sites have gained much popularity in the recent years because of the opportunity to create better relationships with people by connect to each other in an easy and timely manner, exchanging and share various kinds of information. There may be need to improve the information dissemination strategies for a certain community which will in turn enhance the flow of communication using additional platforms. This study proposes a new web-based social networking system for universities, to improve the effectiveness of communication among its community, a waterfall method has followed in development, the data for design based on special university interaction needs, C# programming language and SQL server has implemented in order to add the positive effects of its properties in usability, user data exchange, security. For testing the system, the black and white boxes have been used. This site has introduced a platform for users to interact, share ideas, share the study announcements, activities to improve these include user status update, photo uploads, mailing, live chat. The full deployment of the system in the university would yield desired communication feedback and could even be adapted in different universities.