THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with the user bases larger than the populationnof most countries.
1. MEDIA SHARING
  1. PHOTOBUCKET
    1. Photobucket allows users to share photos publically or in password-protected albums.
      1. 2003
  2. FLICKR
    1. Flickr also has groups, photo pools, and allows users to create profiles, add friends, and organize images and viedo into photo sets/albums.
      1. 2004
  3. YOUTUBE
    1. Youtube was the first major video hosting aand sharing site, user can upload videos up to 10 minutes long and share them trough Youtube or by embedding them on other websites.
      1. 2005
  4. REVVER
    1. Revver let you posst videos for free and didn't pay content creators for any advertising revenues their videos generated.
      1. 2005
2. EARLY SOCIAL NETWORKS
  1. DATING SITES
    1. They allowed users to create profiles and to users.contact other
  2. SIX DEGREES
    1. It allowed users to create a profile and to become friends with other users
      1. 1997
  3. FORUMS
    1. Online forums also played a large part in evolution of the social web. Online forums came with more user-friendly interface, making them easier for non-technical visitors to use.
      1. 70's-80's
  4. ASIANAVENUE, MIGENTE, BLACK PLANET
    1. They allowed users to create profiles and add friends, they could create professional, personal and dating profiles on these sites.
      1. 1997
  5. LIVEJOURNAL
    1. Was a social network built around constantly-updated blogs. Livejournal encouraged its users to follow one another and to create groups and otherwise interact.
      1. 1999
  6. WORLD OF WARCRAFT/ MMORPGS
    1. MMORPGS (Massively multiplayer online role-playing games), World of Warcraft where players interact both in the game worldand on related forums and community sites.
      1. 2001
3. PRECURSORS TO SOCIAL MEDIA
  1. USENET
    1. Tom Truscott and Jim Elilis first conceived of Usenet systems. Usernets let users post articles or post articles or post to newsgroups.
      1. 1979
  2. BBSS (BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS)
    1. BBSS were the first type of sites that allowed users to log on and interact with one another, albeit in a much slower fashion that we currently do.
      1. 70's
  3. ONLINE SERVICES
    1. Online services were the first real "corporate" attempts at accessing the Internet.
      1. 80's
  4. GENIE
    1. This service was created to make use of idle time-sharing mainframes after normal U.S. bussiness hours.
      1. 1985
  5. IQC
    1. Was the first instant messaging program for PCs. It was at least partly responsible for the adoption of avatars, abbreviations (LOL, BRB) and emoticons.
      1. mid 90's
  6. IRC (INTERNET RELAY CHAT)
    1. Internet Relay Chat was used for file sharing, link sharing and otherwise keeping in touch. It was really the father of instant messaging as we know it today.
      1. 1988
4. OTHER MAJOR SOCIAL NETWORKS
  1. MULTIPLY
    1. Is a social network and media sharing site and puts much more emphasis on security and privacy than many other networks.
      1. 2004
  2. ORKUT
    1. Is Google's social network, and while it's not particulary popular in the U.S. Orkut lets users share media, status updates, and communicate through IM.
      1. 2004
  3. KONTAIN
    1. Kontain works a bit differently than many social networks, putting the focus on usability and allowing users to follow each other through photos, videos, and music, rather than just simple status updates.
      1. 2008
5. LIFE STREAMING AND LIFE CASTIING
  1. USTREAM.TV
    1. Ustream allows viewers to post comments and ask questions directly to the feed host during live broadcasts, and this interactivity often engages users to a greater extent than other video sites.
      1. 2006
  2. JUSTIN.TV
    1. Justin.tv is a streaming video host thaat lets life casters and live show creators to broadcast to hundreds ow thousands of internet users
      1. 2006
  3. FRIENDFEED
    1. Allows you to integrate most of your online activities in one place. THey allowed users to create friends lists, post updates, and ptherwise communicatE.
      1. 2007
6. REAL TIME UPDATES
  1. TWITTER
    1. Twitter clients for updating and managing followers; services that track Twitter trends; and services for posting photos and videos directly to Twitter.
      1. 2007
  2. POSTEROUS
    1. Posterous is the newest major micro blogging application, started by Y Combinator. Users post content via email. Emails can include attached photos, MP3 and other file types.
      1. 2009
  3. TUMBLR
    1. The site lets users post photos, video, text, audio, links, conversations, and other content on blog-like sites.
      1. 2007
7. NICHE SOCIAL NETWORKS
  1. NING
    1. Ning is a plataform for creating niche social networks. New users can either create social networks for any niche they choose or join any of more 1.5 million existing networks.
      1. 2004
8. SOCIAL NEWS AND BOOKMARKING
  1. DELICIOUS
    1. Delicious allows it users to bookmark any content they find online, tag that content, and then share it with other users.
      1. 2003
  2. DIGG
    1. Digg users can share links to anything online and other users can vote that content uo por down. Users can also comment on content posted by others and keep a friends list.
      1. 2004
  3. REDDIT
    1. Reddit allowed users to vote content up or down, they can view popular items, new items, and "controversial" items.
      1. 2005
9. MAJOR ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORKING
  1. FRIENDSTER
    1. It allowed users to discover their friends and then friends-of-friends, and so on to expand their networks.
      1. 2002
  2. HI5
    1. Users can set their profiles to be seen only by their network members or by Hi5 users in general.
      1. 2003
  3. MYSPACE
    1. Allowed users to completely customize the look of their profies. Users could also post music from artists on Myspace and embed videos from other sites on their profiles
      1. 2003
  4. FACEBOOK
    1. Facebook allow users to post photos, videos and otherwise customize their profile content, if not the design. Over the past a few years facebook included instant messaging/chat apps.
      1. 2004
  5. LINKEDIN
    1. Linkedin allowed users to post a profile and to interact through private messaging.
      1. 2003
BOCARDO VELAZQUEZ MINNUE OSUNA MORAN FRANCISCO

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