Social networking websites have evolved significantly since early sites in the 1990s. Modern sites allow users to connect through sharing content, messages, and activities. While social media makes communication easier and allows networking on a large scale, there are also criticisms such as privacy and security issues. Successful founders like Mark Zuckerberg created hugely popular sites like Facebook and showed how social media can be profitable. However, overuse of social media may encourage antisocial behaviors and vague assumptions about others. Overall social networking provides benefits of easy connections but also risks if not used carefully.
2. Index
• History
• Introduction about Social Networking Websites
• Social Networking Definitions & Terms
• Giant Social Networking Websites Examples
• Ongoing Developments
• Positive Aspects for Social Networking
•Criticisms against Social Networks
• Success Stories
• My opinion
3. History
Early social networking websites:
• 1995 - classmates.com
• focused on ties between former schoolmates
• 1997 – sixdegrees.com
• focused on indirect ties
4. Social networks connect people at low cost, such as chat, email,
video, voice chat, interactive web applications and so on…
Intro Social Networking Websites
Networked
Economy
Immigrant
Networks
National
Innovation
Networks
Networking
Entrepreneurial
Networks
Ego Networks
Regional
Networks
Infrastructure
Networks
Social
Networks
5. Link
Social Networking Definitions & Terms
• What is a network?
A set of nodes, points, or locations connected by means of
data, voice, and video communications for the purpose of
exchange.
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6. Social Networking Definitions & Terms, cont’d
• What is a Social Network? Wikipedia Def.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
A social network is a social structure made up of a
set of social actors (such as individuals or
organizations) and a complex set of the dyadic ties
(interactions) between these actors.
8. Modern social networking websites:
• 2002 – Friendster
• now mostly used in Asia
• 2003 – Myspace
• Which was bought by News Corporation (parent company
of Fox) in 2005
• most popular social networking site in 2006
Giant Social Networking Websites Ex, cont’d
9. • 2004 - Facebook (founded by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard as
thefacebook.com)
• largest and fastest growing site in the world
• membership initially limited to Harvard students, but was
expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League; later expanded
further to include any university student, then high school
students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over
• 2005 – Bebo www.bebo.com
• stands for “blog early, blog often”
Giant Social Networking Websites Ex, cont’d
11. Positive Aspects for Social Networking
• Ease of access to recent trends/topics
• Digg
• Faster communication over longer distances
• Facebook, Myspace, Digg
• Big audience
• Blogging (Blogger, Livejournal, Youtube,
Wordpress)
• Equating computer to sociability; second life
• Facebook, Myspace
12. • Promoting False Identities
• Celebrities/Political
• Site Security
• Lack of customer service
• Accessibility and reliability
• Child Safety
• Stalking
• Party gatecrashing
• Crashing uninvited parties which were
advertised through sites like Myspace and
Facebook where anyone could see the
invitation.
Criticisms against Social Networks
13. Criticisms against Social Networks, cont’d
• Social Exploitation and Censorship
• Social and Cultural
• Censorship
• Privacy
• Security
• Hacked Facebook profiles is on increase
14. Success Stories…
Mark Zuckerberg who created Facebook when he was 19, and now
he is called the genius/networking king.
Zuckerberg is now the world’s youngest billionaire.
After his success,500 companies like Yahoo offered him deals
And now he is a very
successful
businessman!
15. Kevin Rose created Digg ” the social
news website”.
Rose became the king of the
internet, and he made 60 million
dollars in 18 months.
Digg was sold for $60 million, and
got a deal from Google for around
200 million.
Success Stories…
16. My Opinion?
Social networking sites have caused much debate among users
across the globe. They help us to connect more easily to others,
display our interests in a public forum, and allow us to forge
connections despite vast space between users.
Positive aspects:
• Simple, user friendly set up and personalization
• Usually cost efficient/free
• Easily accessible and globally available
17. Positive aspects notwithstanding, there are some arguments
against social networking sites, including:
My Opinion? cont’d
• Lack of privacy/ control over what is public and
not
• Encourages procrastination
• Tendency to compartmentalize and make
vague and occasionally unfair assumptions
about others
•Become antisocial
Dave Itzkoff is a culture reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of "Cocaine's Son," a memoir about growing up with his drug-abusing father.[1] Prior to joining the Times, he was an associate editor at Spin magazine and Maxim.[