SOCIAL NETWORKING REVOLUTION

SOCIAL NETWORKS REVOLUTION

SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM:

“A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.”

 

Today we cannot imagine living without social media be it Facebook,

Twitter, skype WhatsApp or any social networking form. Since the beginning of the world man has been looking for the ways to communicate with each other. It began from pigeons, horses to hand written letters through posts, telegraphs, telephones, cellphones, and is still looking for ways to improve it.

Now people are very busy they don’t have time for their elders their family but they do have time for faceook and other social networking platdforms. Ahh!!! The other side of the picture,but it wasn’t the case 10 years ago. From where did it began

FROM GEOCITIES TO MANY

In 1994, the first social networking site was created, Geocities.  Geocities allowed the users to create and customize their own web sites, grouping them into different ‘cities’ based on the site’s content.

The following year, TheGlobe.com launched to public, giving users the ability to interact with people who have the same hobbies and interests, and to publish their own content.

A few years later, AOL Instant Messenger and SixDegrees.com launched in 1997.

Other sites followed suit, creating social networking sites such as Classmates, Friendzy, Hi-5, just to name a few.

 For example, Classmates allowed users to reconnect with old classmates, pals, bullies and crushes. It was a hit immediately, and  Classmates still has some 40,000,000 registered users.

SixDegrees.com is one of the earliest social networking sites, but did not gain the same success. The idea is based on the theory that people are separated by no more than six degrees from one another. It also allowed users to create profiles, make groups, search and invite friends. However, they encouraged members to invite more people to the site and had too many membership drives. Many people complained that the membership invitations were spam, filling up their websites with junk. It was sold in 2001 for $125 million but completely shut down the year after.

The first modern social networking site that we define today is Friendster. It also uses the degree of separation concept similar to SixDegrees, but dubbed it ‘Circle of Friends’. Friendster  was basically a dating site that wasn’t all about dating. In the first 3 months, Friendster was able to amass 3,000,000 users. This means 1 in 126 web users were Friendster members at the time.

Soon MySpace followed suit, who cloned Friendster. It was launched after only 10 days of coding. It soon became more popular than Friendster. MySpace gave users more freedom than Friendster when it came to customization; with music, videos and a hipper online environment.it is still most favourite in us

Another site with considerable success is LinkedIn. It was established in 2003, and took a more professional and business approach to social networking.

Facebook came into the social networking scene a little bit later. It was launched in 2004, and the primary intent was to connect US college students Now there are many websites and apps that are used for social networking