People today spend more time with their friends on Facebook and other social networking websites. It has its merits as well as demerits. The winner is viral content manufacturers whose creations get spread around much faster now than before. Compared to now, earlier very few people used to download and share interesting movies, songs, pictures and other media on their phones or through email. With the news feed and constant updates of social networking sites like Facebook, the amount of things shared on Facebook has grown exponentially.

People share things they find cool and newsworthy. So it is subjective from person to person. However everyone likes to share or receive funny, shocking and other sensational media files that become the talk of their friend circles both online as well as offline. Sharing on Facebook has attained a sort of competitiveness with everyone vying to share things that receive a lot of “likes” from friends online. There are a lot of places from which one can find stuff to share on Facebook:

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Recent years have seen a splurge in new travel booking sites in India. I have had the chance to use a lot of them for my bookings. Here is a list of sites which I feel are good. Remember, all these sites keep offering new deals or another to outbid each other, so you are money conscious, do check few before you decide to buy book your travel plan or airlines ticket.

Aggregator Travel Sites

(sites which bring to you prices from various other sites at one place, do not sell the tickets but only help you locate tickets and then you book on those sites from the link they provide)

http://travel.bixee.com/: offers air (domestic and international), rail, bus and hotel ticket search. It also gives you the fare price graph so that you get an idea on when the prices are low and when high.

http://in.farechase.yahoo.com/: Yahoo’s offering for airlines ticket search for domestic flights in India. They have integrated this with Yahoo Messenger so you can your friend can plan for a travel and choose flights together. [Yahoo Messenger India Flight Planner]. They also have a neat “my fare alert utility” which allows you to create an alert for flight fare for a certain date. As soon as the price falls below your set limit, it can alert you via email or your yahoo messenger.

http://www.ixigo.com/: one of the first travel aggregator sites with fare trends which I know of. Very fast and user friendly. Brings you flight, hotel and bus deals from several sites at one place.

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