Social networking sites allow users to connect with others and share information online. Some key social networking sites mentioned are Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg for Harvard students and now has over 800 million active users. Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and allows users to share brief updates. MySpace was founded in 2003 and was very popular in the mid-2000s but has since declined with the rise of Facebook.

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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