The document summarizes the history and evolution of several major social networking sites over time, including Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, and Blogger. It discusses what made each site popular or successful in its time, as well as key statistics about user bases. The conclusion reflects on what was learned about social marketing and its growing importance both personally and professionally in an increasingly digital world.

1. Presentation On Social Marketing Over The Years By: Faris Wright

3. Myspace was created in 2003 by a guy name Tom Anderson and became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006.According to comScore.

4. At the bottom of the myspace logo you notice it says a place for friends, but I actually think that was the problem it began to branch away from being for the people but more focused on the money from advertisers and it started to be less networking going on but more advertising.

6. Facebook was founded by a computer science major named Mark Zuckerberg and was initially used for Harvard University students to keep in contact with basic information and a chance to meet fellow students and back then it was known as thefacebook.

7. Facebook then became popular and branched off to other Universities and then was just a college social networking site. With the growth of that it kept growing then to high school and shortly after to the general public with set regional networks.

9. Facebook is a more personal site for the people. I think that’s why people like it so much because you get to decide everything and its all about you! You create your profile and description based on your personality.

10. Facebook has became more successful than myspace because it simplified things and less advertising. It seems that people like things simplified and they are more adaptable to it guess because its user friendly.

12. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.

13. Twitter has became successful because it was more simpler to use than facebook and its all about you.

14. Another component to twitters success if it has a lot of actual celebrities that use it and endorse it just by word of mouth.

16. When I heard the buzz about twitter I thought it was going to be pretty cool so I joined like everyone else just to stay in the social networking loop.

17. After I joined I didn’t really enjoy it that much there nothing really going on unless someone updates their status.

18. I then learned about tweetdeck which is pretty cool and makes twitter a lot more fun than the original way. Its like you can view everything on one page, it organizes the tabs for you.

20. Skype is a site that has never blown up to its fullest potential. I say that because it’s a great site and has a the great feature of talking and seeing friends live

21. I like skype just because you don’t have to do so much typing and you get your message to them with urgency because its live!

23. Its used to upload and store your favorite video creations, and see how many people are actually interested in what you put up.

24. I think that the one unique thing about youtube is it constantly shows how popular your video is because it counts how many different computers view it.

26. You can design your blog however you want. You can choose your backround, your info you wish to display and even what applications or boxes you want on there.

27. This is also a pretty personal site, it lets you just type random gibberish and thoughts about you or whatever you want on there.

29. There's always something new or a change you want to add to your blog. It seems like something you have to do everyday just to keep your blog interesting.

30. Another good thing about blogger is that your pretty much can pass this for a website and get people to view this for info on you, your company, or whatever your blogs main focus is about.

33. Everybody wants to be apart of a major group and that’s basically what these sites are, and letting everyone join.

34. Especially when the majority of the population constantly joins you don’t want to feel left out.

35. Social networking is also a easy way of communicating with others from the comfort of your home.

36. People use social networks site for many reasons, from job networking, promotions, building friendships, and just staying in contact with friends & family

39. I really enjoyed this summer online class and I plan to use all the features we've learned in the near future. Starting with blogger, I really want to get into that more.

40. One thing I noticed through out the term was my google popularity, I mean I was already on googlebut with doing all theses sites and online work its like my name dominates the whole first page in search rankings.

41. In today's world in order to keep up with it you have to have some type of internet interaction, I say that because our world is moving more torward a future of computers and technology. I think I am very educated on the internet and plan to take away what I learned in the MSU New Media Driver Lisence class and put it to use to the maximum of my ability.