Dating site are sometimes considered
the first social networks. The first dating
sites started cropping up almost as soon
as people started going online. They
allowed users to create profiles (usually
with photos) and to contact other users.
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MACRAFT/MMORPS
MAJOR ADVANCES IN SOCIAL
NETWORKING
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there are general social
network with user bases
larger tan the population of
most countries. the are sites
to share potos, vedeos,
status, sites for meeting new
people an d sites to conect
with old friends.
FACEBOOK
OTHER MAJOR SOCIAL NETWORKS
MULTIPLY
ORKUT
KONTAIN
a family friendly social
network and media sharing
site was estabilished in 2004
and puts much more
emphasis on security and
privacy that many other
nwwtworks.
COMPANY-SPONSORED
SOCIAL NETWORKS
AUTHONOMY
MEDIA SHARING
PHOTOBUCKET
Authonomy is one exaple; it's a
writers'network hosted by the uk división
of harper Collins that has attracted
thousands of hopeful wrinter from all
over the globe, but plenty of other
campanies have created their own
networks
FLICKR
YOU TUBE
REVVER
SOCIAL NEWS AND
BOOKMARKING
DELICIOUS
DIGG
REDDIT
The advent of social news and
bookmarking sites in the
mid-2000's brought about a whole
new way of see what's going on in
the world and discovering
interesting content.News became
more widely available thanks to
sites like delicious, digg.
REAL TIME UP DATES
TWITTER
POSTEROUS
TUMBLR
Real-time updates have
become the new norm in
sicial media. With the
advent of twitter in 2006,
status updates have
become the new norm in
social networking.
Virtually all major social
networks now allow
real-time updates.
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Dating sites are sometimes
considered the first social
networks. The first dating
sites started creopping up
almost as soon as people
started going online. They
allowed users to create
profiles (usually with
photos) and to contact
other users.
PRECURSORTS
USERNETS
BBSS (BULLETIN
BOARD SYSTEM)
ONLINE
SERVICES
IRC, ICQ, AND
INSTANT
MESSAGING
IN 1979, Jim Ellis and tom Truscott, computer
science graduate students at duke university,
were familiar with the first mailing lists on the
ARPANE. To provide the most basic capability to
share comunications, the conceived of a simple
progam to automate the transfer of files
between any two computers using telephone
modems
NICHE SOCIAL NETWORKS
NING
As sicial networking grew, niche
sites began cropping up for
specific interest groups. There are
now social networks for virtually
every hobby, passion, interest,
industry and group that you could
imagine.