2.  Definition- an online community of people
with a common interest who use a Website or
other technologies to communicate with each
other and share information.
 Allows individuals to connect with friends,
family, or outsiders
 First social networking was AOL
-Helped people by communicating through email
and instant messenger
 Can share ideas , activities, events and other
interests

3.  Twitter
 Facebook
 MySpace

4.  Founded in 2003 by Tom
Anderson
 Allows users to customize
their profiles with music,
banners, and important
upcoming dates
 2006 was MySpace’s big year
and tripled its ratings since it
had first started

5.  Started by Mark Zuckerberg,
Harvard University Graduate
 First started off with only Harvard
students
 Expanded to everyone by 2006 (high
schools, colleges & businesses)
 Easy to learn how to use- gives you
pointers to where information is
suppose to go
 Has more than 800 million active
users.
 During 2008 Facebook was at the top
of the chart for most popular social
networking sites

6.  Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
 A site that allows you to tweet
about what is going on in your life.
 Gives people a chance to tell
friends where they are.
 Less condense website then other
social networking sites.
 Celebrities and athletes use this
website to keep people up to date
with what they are doing.
 As of right now there are 200
millions users who update tweets
daily.

7.  Some famous people who use this site is Aston
Kutcher, Demi Moore, MC Hammer, Oprah
and Martha Stewart.

8.  More people spend time on Facebook
observing their friends pages then actually
posting content- study done by department of
Psychology at Georgetown.
 Facebook is used most often for social
interaction, primarily with friends.
 Women dominate men when using social
networking sites with 68%.
 Facebook has started to reach market capacity.
(157.2 million visitors and 73% of the total U.S.
Internet population each month.)

9. FACEBOOK TWITTER
 There are some privacy  The only privacy setting
settings that you have to is to make your page
enable on the page. private.- this means that
 Basic Privacy settings are you have to approve the
“only friends”, “friends of person to follow you.
friends” or “everybody”.  By putting this on your
 People have complained tweets will only be
that strangers are looking visible to users you’ve
at their pictures and wall approved.
posts.

10.  Is expected to grow even more in year 2012

11.  Most popular
 age ranges
 from 18-25

12.  MySpace has had a huge decline in the past
few years due to Facebook
 Facebook has a lot more users then MySpace
ever did.
 People plan for Twitter to continue to grow
and possibly surpass Facebooks numbers in the
next few years.

13.  Mobile devices including more apps for social
networking sites.
 Facebook- shorten history on your page.
 Enhance the features
 New Release- if your friend is watching a movie
on Netflix, you can start watching the movie
within Facebook with no charge fee.
 Filtering what you share with you friends is going
to get harder with the network.
 New social networking site- Whereberry(linked
with Facebook)
 Whereberry is about what your future plans are.

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