2. What is the SNS?
• SNS(Social Networking Service) is an online service,
platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of
social network or social relations among people, who, for
example, share interests and/or activities. Web based social
networking services make it possible to connect people who
share interests and activities across political, economic, and
geographic borders.
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3. SNS sites
-Facebook
• Facebook is a social network
web site launched in February
2004.
• Facebook was founded by Mark
Zukerberg with his friends.
• The web site’s membership was
initially limited by the founders to
Harvard students, but was
expended other area.
• As of July 2011, Facebook has
more than 800 million active
users.
• A january 2009 Compete.com
study ranked Facebook as the
most used social networking
service by worldwide monthly
active users, followed by
MySpace.
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4. SNS sites
-Twitter
• Twitter is an online social
networking and micro blogging
service that enables its users to
send and read text-based posts
of up to 140 characters,
informally known as “tweets”
• Twitter was created in March
2006 by Jack Dorsey and
launched that July.
• In 2011, 200 million people use
Twitter
• nowadays, Lots of celebrities and
politicians using Twitter to
communicate with their fans.
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5. SNS sites
-Cyworld
• Cyworld is a Korean social network
service operated by SK
Communications.
• Cyworld launched in 1999 and it was
purchased by SK Comuunications in
2003.
• Members cultivate relationship by
forming Ilchon(일촌) or “friendship”
with each other through their
minihompy.
• The “Cy( 사 이 )” in cyworld mean
“cyber” but is also a pun on the
Korean word for relationship.
• Revenue is generated through the
sale of “Dotori”(adorns), which can
then be used to purchase virtual
goods such as virtual appliances and
background music.
• But, their commercialization and
leakage of personal information 5
resulted in decrease of users.
6. SNS
-o
Image and video hosting
Video-sharing web site
web site
Social news web site Miniblog
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