What is a profile

What is a profile

Communication and work on the Internet involves registration on many websites and use of a large number of programs. For user identification practically all of them use profiles.

The profile is the identifier of each user. Depending on type and a type of the program, profiles comprise a set of different information. Usually they represent a page with the branched structure giving an opportunity to pass to different to sections and to edit information on themselves.

Browsers by means of which you go on-line contain your bookmarks, files of mail and news, the notebook, parameters of accounts, the saved passwords and some other data including certificates of safety in a user profile.

 

Communication in a blogosphere also leads to creation of a personal profile. Everyone, publishing messages under the nickname, has an opportunity to configure a profile for this nickname and to provide a set of information to visitors of a page. For example, photo, date of birth. The publication conducts an e-mail of the address to the fact that the user opens the life out of the website or community; she speaks about its readiness to communicate.

Profiles are created in order that any participant of the program or the website had an opportunity to tell about himself that information which he is ready to provide to an uncertain circle of people. The story about hobbies, favourite music, the spheres of interest - here what brings together people and helps them to find accomplices in an immense web. The indication of phones and the field of accommodation leads to rapprochement of strangers, the beginning of communication.

In addition to personal information, profiles bear in themselves settings and a possibility of their change. So in the blog you can change background color or all style of design, configure privacy for each published message and many other things. Settings of a profile in the browser are responsible for safety of your computer and also an opportunity to change contents of bookmarks and news files.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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