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<emphasis role="bold">Social</emphasis> is an application of eXo Platform, which gives users rich experiences with many features that are similar to social networks, such as Facebook, and Linkedln.
With <emphasis role="bold">Social</emphasis>, you can establish more meaningful connections and improve your communication and collaboration. <emphasis role="bold">Social</emphasis> allows you to add details, including experiences, skills, and team information, to your own profile.
Besides, <emphasis role="bold">Social</emphasis> supports the OpenSocial API standard that allows developers to write social gadgets intuitively and easily for displaying and mashing up activity information for contacts, applications, services and social networks.
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This chapter presents the following topics:
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<para><link linkend="Platform_User_Guide.Social.Manage_Profile">Manage your profile</link> through step-by-step instructions. In this section, you can build your profile with full personal information, such as contact information, work experience, current position, and more.
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<para><link linkend="Platform_User_Guide.Social.Manage_Spaces">Manage spaces</link> which shows you how to create/edit/join/leave/delete a space, or to view its details, or to search for spaces and to accept/deny invitations.
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<para><link linkend="Platform_User_Guide.Social.Manage_connections">Manage connections</link> which includes actions related to searching for contacts and sending connection requests.
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<para><link linkend="Platform_User_Guide.Social.Follow_Activities">Follow activities in your organization</link> which allows you to update status, share links, delete activities/comments, comment on activities, or like/unlike activities.
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In this chapter, most Social-related actions are demonstrated through the *Intranet* site which is a default social portal built in eXo Platform.

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After entering *Intranet*, you will be directed to the *Intranet* homepage as below.

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