2. The History of Social Networks goes back
to cavemen who probably posted up on
their walls the best places to hunt &
gather and share what types of tools
were good for different things.
3. Being connected to the world around us has
never been more easy and accessible than it is
today.
Reaching people
around the world with
a “click” it is not a
dream anymore, and
it is part of our daily
life.
4. We could say that 1971, when the first e-mail
was sent, is the starting point of this new way
of communicate.
“qwertyuiop” was the first text sent with an e-mail, it is
usually the top line a a keybord and the longest word you
can make out of it is “typewriter” ...coincidence?
5. 1978, BBS exchanged data over phone lines
- A Bulletin Board System is a computer system running
software that allows users to connect and log in to the
system using a terminal program.
-Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as
uploading and downloading software and data, reading
news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other
users, either through email or in public message boards.
-Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line
using a modem.
6. -Ward Christensen coined the term "Bulletin Board System"
as a reference to the traditional cork-and-pin bulletin board
often found in entrances of supermarkets, schools, libraries
or other public areas where people can post messages,
advertisements, or community news.
By "computerizing" this method of
communications, the name of the first BBS
system was born: CBBS - Computerized
Bulletin Board System.
Bulletin Board Systems were in many ways a
precursor to the modern form of the world
wide web, social network services and other
aspects of the internet.
7. 1994 : GEOCITIES is founded.
It is one of the first social networking sites. In its original
form, site users selected a “city” in wich to place their web
pages. The cities were named after real cities or region
according to their content (computer related sites were
placed in “Silicon Valley and those dealing with
entertainment were assigned to “hollywood”)
In 1996, GeoCities had 29 "neighborhoods," which had groupings of
content created by the "homesteaders" (GeoCities users).[
By 1999, GeoCities had additional neighborhoods and refocused existing
neighborhoods such as:
Area 51 : science fictions and fantasy
Broadway : theater and performing arts
CollegePark : university life
Fashion Avenue : fashion
Nashville : country music
Napa Valley : wine
Petsburgh : pets
8. 1997 : AOL INSTANT MESSENGER and
SIXDEGREES.COM are founded.
SixDegrees.com was a social network website that lasted
four years.It wa s named after the six degrees separation
concept and allowed users to list friends, family members
and other users; external contacts were invited to join the site.
Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their
first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on
the site.
It was one of the first manifestations of social
networking websites as we know them today.
Instant messaging programs become more
and more popular among the web users that
start to get used to personal profile
creations and listing friends.
9. In 2002 was launched FRIENDSTER,
pioneer of the online connection among
REAL-WORLD FRIENDS.
Its user-base grows to 3 million users in the first three months!
It was considered one of the original and even
the "grandaddy" of social networks.
FRIENDSTER became popular in Southeast
Asia and even today it is a major site in that
region of the world.
-The service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those
contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.
-The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands,
and hobbies.
-Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other
members via their profile and their network.
10. In 2003 appeared first conceived as a Friendster clone.
Its first version was coded in about 10 days.
eUniverse used its 20 million users and
e-mail subscribers to breathe life into
MySpace, and move it to the head of the
pack of social networking websites.
Myspace profiles for musicians in the website's Music section
differ from normal profiles in allowing artists to upload their
entire discographies consisting of MP3 songs.
11. is a social network service and website launched in February,
originally as a way of connecting U.S. College students
2004
In March, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. It soon opened
to other schools like NY University, MIT and many Canadian colleges.
2005 The domain name facebook.com was bought for $200,000
Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to
2006 everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.
Today Facebook has more than 845 million active users.
2012
Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal
profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic
notifications when they update their profile.
Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace,
school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists
such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends".
12. 2006: was created
Twitter is an online microblogging and social networking
service that enables its users to send and read text-based
posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300
million users as of 2011,generating over 300 million tweets.
Users may subscribe to other users' tweets’ following
subscribers followers or tweeps (Twitter+peeps).
Twitter emphasized its news and information-network
strategy in November 2009 by changing the question asked
to users for status updates from "What are you doing?" to
"What's happening?"
14. List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users:
Active user
Name Date
accounts
Facebook 800+ million[1] September 2011
Qzone 536 million[2] December 2011
Twitter 380+ million[3] November 2011
Windows live 330+ million[4] June 2009
Tencent Veibo 310 million[2] December 2011
Habbo 230 million[5] September 2011
Skype 200 million January 2012
Vkontakte 145+ million [6] February 2012
Badoo 121+ million[7] July 2011
Bebo 117 million[8] July 2010
Linkednl 100+ million[9] March 2011
Google+ 100 million[10] February 2012
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18. Conclusions:
We have all witnessed how far social
networking has seeped into day to day living;
news broadcasters calling for Tweet views,
appointments being made purely over
LinkedIn, entire conversations being had in
public and online – from different corners of
the world. Examining the fascinating history of
social media leads to just one conclusion –
unpredictability will continue to reign.
It is impossible to accurately foretell what
platforms will stay in favour, which will be
rejected and when the next will be launched,
particularly when the social networks
themselves have become such strong and
influential brands. As an online community we
are fickle creatures; but one thing’s for sure,
there is plenty more room for growth.
