The document discusses various types of social media and networking sites. It describes popular sites like Facebook, which has over 250 million users who log on daily. MySpace allows users to share photos, videos, and music. LinkedIn is a professional networking site with over 45 million members worldwide. YouTube is the most popular video sharing site, and Flickr is a site for photo sharing. Social bookmarking sites like Delicious allow users to tag and share web pages. Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by volunteers. The document outlines statistics and features of these major social media platforms.

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Tweeting Isn't Just for the Birds

3. 1.What Is Social Networking?
2.Connecting - Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin
3.Video Sharing - YouTube
4.Photo Sharing - Flickr
5.Social Bookmarking - del.icio.us
6.Wikis(wikipedia)
7.Privacy Concerns

4. Web 2.0 - The Web as
Participation/Internet Democracy
"Web 2.0 refers to web development and
web design that facilitates interactive
information sharing, user-centered
design and collaboration on the World
Wide Web.
Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based
communities, web applications, social-
networking sites, video-sharing sites,
wikis, blogs.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to
interact with other users or to change
website content, in contrast to non-
interactive websites where users are
limited to the passive viewing of
information that is provided to them."

5. • Social Networking Sites (Facebook, MySpace,
LinkedIn)
• Video and Photo Sharing Sites (YouTube, Flickr)
• Blogs (Huffington Post, Lifehacker, TMZ)
• Wikis (Wikipedia)
• Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us, Digg)
• Internet Radio (Pandora)
• Open Source software
• Text and Video Chat (Skype, Meebo)
• Maps/Directions (MapQuest, Google Maps)
• Collaboration (Whiteboard, Google Docs)
...many many more

6. PC Magazine defines a Social Network as:
"An association of people drawn together by family, work or hobby. The term
was first coined by professor J. A. Barnes in the 1950s, who defined the size
of a social network as a group of about 100 to 150 people."
And defines a Social Networking Site as:
"A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a
particular subject or just to 'hang out' together.
Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures,
likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post.
The 'social networking site' is the 21st century 'virtual community,' a group of
people who use the Internet to communicate with each other about anything
and everything.

7. Introduced in 2002, Friendster
(www.friendster.com) was the first social
site, followed by MySpace
(www.myspace.com) a year later.
Started by two friends, MySpace became
extremely popular, and its parent
company, was acquired by News
Corporation for $580 million two years
after MySpace was launched.
Facebook (www.facebook.com) came out
in 2004 initially targeting college
students, but later welcoming everyone .

8.  By 2011 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers,96% of them have joined a
social network
 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
 Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years),
Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years).Facebook added 100 million users in
less than 9 months . iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
 If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between
the United States and Indonesia
 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online
students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
 % of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees is
80%

9.  80% of Twitter usage is on
mobile devices . People
update anywhere, anytime .
 The #2 largest search engine in
the world is YouTube
 Wikipedia has over 13 million
articles.
 There are over 200,000,000
Blogs

 54% is the Number of bloggers
who post content or tweet
daily

 More than 1.5 million pieces of
content (web links, news
stories, blog posts, notes,
photos, etc.) are shared on
Facebook daily.

10.  Create and maintain many relationships
 Information comes to you
 Provides ability to participate and contribute
 Professional networking
 Promote issues important to you
 Lack of anonymity
 Scams
 Time consuming
 Predatory targeting
 Harassment and online bullying

11. The main types of social networking
services are those which contain category
divisions (such as former school-year or
classmates), means to connect with friends
(usually with self-description pages) and a
recommendation system linked to trust.
Popular methods now combine many of
these, with Facebook widely used
worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn
being the most widely used in North
America.
• Facebook - www.facebook.com
• MySpace - www.myspace.com
• LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com

12. FACEBOOK
Launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris
Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook from their Harvard dorm room.
Facebook was originally intended to connect university students but quickly
spread throughout the confines of campuses and now is the world's largest
social networking site.
According to its :
"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world
more open and connected.
"Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an
unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the
people they meet."

14. General Growth
 More than 250 million active users
 More than 120 million users log on to
Facebook at least once each day
User Engagement
 Average user has 120 friends on the
site.
 More than 5 billion minutes are spent
on
Facebook each day (worldwide).
 More than 30 million users update
their statuses at least once each day.
Applications
 More than 1 billion photos uploaded to
the site each month (making it the
largest photo-sharing service)
 More than 1 billion pieces of content
(web links, news stories, notes,
photos, etc.) shared each week

15. MySpace
According to its website:
"MySpace is a technology company connecting people through personal
expression, content, and culture.
MySpace empowers its global community to experience the Internet through a
social lens by integrating personal profiles, photos, videos, mobile,
messaging, games, and the world’s largest music community.
MySpace is a division of News Corporation.“
Overview
 Launched in January 2004
 MySpace has nearly 130 million monthly active users around the globe
 MySpace has more than 70 million total unique users in the US

17. LinkedIn - a site for creating professional relationships
According to the LinkedIn website:
"Your professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in your
career, and is one of your most valuable assets.
LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and
help the people you trust in return. Our mission is to connect the world’s
professionals to make them more productive and successful.
About linked in
 LinkedIn has over 45 million members in over 200 countries and territories
around the world.
 A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half
of our members are outside the U.S.

19. Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular online video
community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share
originally-created videos.
YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others
across the globe.
YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on
www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices,
blogs, and e-mail.
As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering
them to share their experiences, talents, and expertise with the world.
YouTube - www.youtube.com

20. Flickr - Online-Photo-sharing
Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online
community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web
2.0 application.
In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal
photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
According to the Flickr website, the site has two main goals:
1. To help people make their content available to the people who matter to
them.
2. To enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

21. del.icio.us - www.delicious.com
What is social bookmarking?
"Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search,
and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of
metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or
collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social
tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of
keywords to shared content".
What is Delicious?
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save,
manage and share web pages from a centralized source.
Things you can do with Delicious
• Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
• Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return.

22. Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative,
multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the
non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Its 18 million articles (over 3.5 million in English) have
been written collaboratively by volunteers around the
world.
Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and
Larry Sanger and has become the largest and most
popular general reference work on the Internet.
The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger and is a portmanteau of wiki
(a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word
wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia.
WIKIPEDIA

23. General Rules of Thumb for Protecting
Yourself Online
• Be Discreet
• Be Skeptical
• Be Thoughtful
• Be Professional
• Be Wary
• Check Privacy
Policies