subject: Tripadvisor.com For Travel Information, Social Media Style! [print this page] Thank the heavens its 2010, and the old ancient ways of doing research in your local library, Searching through rows of many different types of books and magazines for area information, is long in the past. Now research can be accomplished using the wonderful speed and convenience of today's information filled, World Wide Web. Any initial searches being done on a city through the many on-line related websites and specific applications can result in a very thorough an accurate written and photo filled virtual tour.
A great application in particular is called "TripAdvisor". According to Wikipedia, "TripAdvisor" is a free guide and research website that assists customers in gathering the area information they are looking for, posting opinions of related issues and engaging in interactive forums." This guide can be found by visiting TripAdvisor.com, It's completely FREE to users and supported by their on-line advertisers.
TripAdvisor networks with Facebook also, and it uses the Facebook social graph. Facebooks' social graph allows TripAdvisor to compile any and all available travel information such as cities visited and places lived taken from your Facebook friends.
To use TripAdvisor with Facebook as a travel social networking, when youre on the TripAdvisor.com website researching a particular city, you will see an option to the right of the page called "Get advice from your friends." This will show your Facebook friends who have visited or lived in that city. It will also allow you to ask for travel recommendations right from TripAdvisor or on Facebook. The only catch to using TripAdvisor with Facebook is that your friends must have logged in using the Facebook connect feature also.
Travel social networking style a smart way to gather the travel social media information needed, and when you have valuable websites like TripAdvisor.com in your favorites menu, Your mission is accomplished, Stress free in no time fast.
