The document is a group presentation on social networking by five students. It defines social networking as a way for people with common interests to interact through chatting, emailing, instant messaging and video chatting. It provides background on the rise of social networking sites from the early 1990s and discusses popular sites like Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Line and Myspace. It also covers personal benefits of social networking and predicts that new opportunities and challenges will arise as social networking continues to increase in pace.

1. A GROUP
PRESENTATION
ON
SOCIAL NETWORKING
BY
HIMANSHU KUMAR
JIT SOM
JUHI MANDAL
KAUSHIK DAS
KINGSHUK DHAR

2. CONTENTS:
i. What is social networking?
ii. Background info.
iii. Personal benefits of social networking.
iv. Some social networkings.
v. Popular social networking sites.
 Facebook
 Whatsapp
 Wechat
 Line
 Myspace
vi. Social networking referrers.
vii. Frequency of visitation social networking sites.
viii. Future of social networkings.

3. WHATISSOCIALNETWORKING ?
Social Networking sites is a way for
people with common interest to interact
with one another.
Which Includes:
-Chats
-E-mails
-Instant messaging
-Video chats

4. BACKGROUND INFO:
 Attempts to make social networking sites began in
the early 90s
 Some of the first popular sites were
classmates.com (1995) and sixdegrees.com (1997)
 Today, there are hundreds of social networking
sites, ranging from dating sites to the friendship
based sites, such as Facebook and Whatsapp.

5. Personal benefits of social networking:
 Personal “brand”.
 Unique username.
 One profile is better than none.
 Chance to practice writing.
 Technologically savvy
 Employers get to know you.

6. Some social networkings:

7. Popular social networkings
sites:
• FACEBOOK:
 Mark zuckerberg is the founder of facebook.
 Founded 4 feb 2004 (10 years ago).
 More than 1.23 billions active users per day.
 Now stay connected with and meet people from all over the world.
 One of the most popular sites today.

8. WHATSAPP:
 Was founded in by Americans Brain Acton and Jan Koum.
 Founded in january 2009.
 Reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages.
 claimed that 400 million active users
use the service each month.
 Recently, also came in pc version.
 One of the popular social networking
sites today

9.  WECHAT:
 Developed by Tencent in china.
 Founded in january 2011.
 is a instant messaging.
 Has 600 million users worldwide in dec 2013.
 Is 5th most used smartphone app worldwide.

10.  LINE:
 Developer line corporation(subsidiary of naver corporation of south korea).
 In march 2014 line has reached 400 million users.
 Share photos, videos and music with other users.
 Recently they also came in pc version.
 1 billion stickers sent by worldwide users on a daily basis

11.  MYSPACE:
 founded in 2003 by Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson
 More than 80 million profiles created
 Second most viewed site in America.
 was ranked 303 by total web traffic, and 223 in the United States.

14. Future of social networking:
As the pace of social networking continues to increase, new
opportunities and challenges will arise for communities.
While social networking has brought immense benefits to
many sectors, certain countries and individuals remain
vulnerable, whose interests should be protected and
promoted.