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BACKGROUND
Social network sites is defineservices that allow individuals to (1) cosemi-public profile within a bounded sysa list of other users with whom they shand (3) view and traverse their list of those made by others within the systenomenclature of these connections maysite.The first recognizable sociallaunched in 1997. The name of SixDegrees.com. This social site likeallowed users to create profiles and list tof these features existed in some form beof course. Profiles existed on most majomany community sites. AIM andsupported lists of friends, although thosevisible to others. Classmates.com allaffiliate with their high school or collnetwork for others who were also aff could not create profiles or list friends unDegrees was the first to combine thDegrees promoted itself as a tool to helwith and send messages to others.attracted millions of users, it failesustainable business and, in 2000, thLooking back, its founder believes thatsimply ahead of its time (A. Weicommunication, July 11, 2007). Whalready flocking to the Internet, mo
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f a Social Networking Site withibrary and Conference Chat
debiyi Marion ,
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Ogunlade Omotayo
rtment of Computer and Information Sciencesatural Sciences, College of Science and Technology.Covenant University, Ota.Ogun State, Nigeria
marion@yahoo.com,
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teewhy4jesus@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
g/ sharing fun and some information popularly calnline. A social network service is an online interfacand relate socially. This consists of a representationand a variety of additional services. Most social neter the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging.ng site that can connect people with their friends aed by the user. It would serve the purpose of not justcan get instant data/information on any assignment,es, Past Project and so on. This application would enrs can edit an article and save the edited work to thehind this research is that, projects already done by soed upon. The goal is the development of a resour .
iles, conference chat, blogging, resource sharing
as a web-basedstruct a public or em, (2) articulateare a connection,connections and. The nature andvary from site toetwork site wasthe site wasost other SNSseir friends. Eachfore Six Degrees,r dating sites andCQ buddy listsfriends were notowed people toege and surf theiliated, but userstil years later. Sixse features. Six p people connecthile SixDegreesto become aservice closed.SixDegrees wasnreich, personalile people werest did not haveextended networks of friendadopters complained that thaccepting friend requests,interested inFrom 1997 to 2001, a numbesupporting various combinatiarticulated Friends. AsianMiGente allowed users to cr and dating profiles—users co personal profiles without sconnections (O. Wasow, pers16, 2007). Likewise, shortlyLiveJournal listed one-direct pages. LiveJournal's creator these friends after instantFitzpatrick, personal communLiveJournal, people mark oth journals and manage privacyworlds site Cyworld was star features in 2001, independent& Yun, this issue). Likewiscommunity LunarStorm refas2000, it contained Friends l pages (D. Skog, personal co2007).
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LITERATURE RE
The numbers of so been on the increase over networking sites all have the
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, service, platform, or pagef each user (often through aork services are web basednd allow every user have aa social networking site, but project, and research fromable researchers get optimalir own library - persons getmeone else does not have toce center where people cans who were online. Earlyere was little to do after nd most users were notmeeting strangers.of community tools beganns of profiles and publiclyvenue, BlackPlanet, andeate personal, professional,ld identify Friends on their eking approval for thosenal communication, Augustafter its launch in 1999,ional connections on user suspects that he fashionedessaging buddy lists (B.ication, June 15, 2007)—onrs as Friends to follow their settings. The Korean virtualed in 1999 and added SNSof these other sites (see Kime, when the Swedish webhioned itself as an SNS insts, guestbooks, and diarymunication, September 24,
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cial networking sites havethe years. Different socialr unique functions, but the
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2.1 FACEBOOK
Mark Zuckerberg wrote predecessor to Facebook, on October attending Harvard as a sophomore. AHarvard Crimson, the site was comp Not, and "used photos compiled from theof nine houses, placing two next to eacand asking users to choose the 'hotter' per Facebook is a great way to meeup on what they are doing. Once you adFacebook friend list you will always knadding things to their blog or updating thUsers can create profiles with personal interests, contact information, ainformation. Users can communicateother users through private or public mefeature. They can also create and join in"like pages" (formerly called "fan pages2010), some of which are maintained bymeans of advertising. To allay concer Facebook enables users to choose thsettings and choose who can see speci profile. The website is free to users, andfrom advertising, such as banner ads. Fauser’s name and profile picture (if aaccessible by everyone. Users can contr information they have shared, as wellthem in searches, through their privacy sTraffic to Facebook increased stMore people visited Facebook than Goending March 13, 2010 Fast And BlHISTORY. Facebook also became the tacross eight individual markets in AsiaAustralia, Indonesia, Malaysia, SingapoHong Kong and Vietnam, while other br the top positions in certain markets, iowned Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan,Korea, and Yahoo!’s Wretch.cc in TaiwaAs of January 2011, Facebook million active users. A January 2009 Coranked Facebook as the most used socia by worldwide monthly active user MySpace.
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Friend finder: This feature all people you knew by entering th
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Facebook queries its databasewith related names in the order similar academic backgrounds,details and Current locations
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Chat: Users are only able toFacebook friends and on a
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acemash, the28, 2003, whileccording to Thearable to Hot or online facebooksh other at a timeson".friends and keepd a friend to your w when they areeir profile. photos, lists of nd other personalith friends andssages and a chatterest groups and", until April 19,organizations as as about privacy,eir own privacyfic parts of their generates revenuecebook requires a pplicable) to bel who sees other as who can findttings.eadily after 2009.gle for the week ast FACEBOOK p social network the Philippines,e, New Zealand,ands commandedcluding Google-yWorld in South.as more than 600mpete.com studyl network services, followed by
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ows you to findir names.and find peopleof Friends share,similar employer chat with their ne-to-one basis,although a user maysimultaneously throu
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Messages and Inbox:message to any nutime. Deleting a mesnot delete it from thdisabling a sender to
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Networks: Groupsallows different netmany users can jodiscussions and evenenabling a number online to share infor subjects.
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Individuals or compawhich allows fans of product, service, or fan club. Like Pages luser's personal prisignificant difference
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News Feed: Newsthat includes profileand birthdays, amonalso shows conversathe walls of a user's f
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Notifications: Noimportant events, for link on the user's wathe user previously cfor a few seconds inmessage (if the user is updated on the toolthe user to keep tr notifications.
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Poke: The poke f "nudge" to attract thMany Facebook useattention or say "hell
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URL shortener:Facebook launched iton FB.me domain na
2.1.2 Pros and Con of F
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Keep Track Of Friends: Fafriends are updating their por have some other news o
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Photo Album: Add photosFacebook profile.
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Blog Merge: Use the blogsimple blog or you can minto Facebook’s blog.
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Excellent Search and Bro people on Facebook usifeatures.
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chat with multiple friendsh separate chat interfaces.A facebook user can send a ber of his/her friends at asage from one's inbox doesinbox of other users, thusedo a message sent by him.nd Like Pages: Facebook orks and groups to whichin. Groups are used for ts etc. Groups are a way of f people to come together mation and discuss specificies can create "Like Pages"an individual, organization,concept to join a facebook ook and behave much like avate profile, with somes.eed highlights informationchanges, upcoming events,other updates. News Feedtions taking place betweeniends.ifications of the moreexample, someone sharing all or commenting on a postmmented on, briefly appear the bottom left as a popups online), and a red counter bar at the top, thus allowingck of all the most recenteature is intended to be ae attention of another user.s use this feature to attract" to their friends.n December 14, 2009,s own URL shortener basede.
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No conference Chat: A site like Facea chartroom or general forum sotogether online and just chat and say "
2.2 LINKEDIN
LinkedIn
is a businenetworking site. Founded in December 2in May 2003, it is mainly usednetworking. As of 1 January 2011, Lithan 90 million registered users, spannicountries and territories
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is available in English, French,Portuguese and Spanish. LinkedIn hmonthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6Quantcast reports.The membership of LinkedInmember approximately every second.members are in the United States and 11Europe. With 3 million users, Indiagrowing network of users as of 2009. Ththe highest adoption rate per capita o30%.LinkedIn recently reached 4 millio1 million in Spain.
2.2.1 Features of LINKEDIN
A contact network is built up consistconnections, the connections of connections (termed
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It can then be used to find jobs, peopportunities recommended by scontact network.
Employers can list jobs and seacandidates.
Job seekers can review the profile oand discover which of their existintroduce them.
Users can post their own photos anothers to aid in identification.
Users can now follow different comnotification about the new joiavailable.
Users can save (i.e. bookmark) jobslike to apply for.
2.3 TWITTER
The concept of Twitter relieservices, whether it uses a cell phone, isuch as Yahoo Messenger or MSN Mess
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ok should have people can gethi".ss-oriented social002 and launchedfor professionalkedIn had moreg more than 200worldwide
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) andgree connectionshis can be used person wishes toct. ple and businessmeone in one'sch for potentialf hiring managersing contacts cand view photos of anies and can geting and offershich they woulds on messagingstant messenger,enger, or throughspecific websites. It allows tfriends and family quickly aone question, “What are you dis 140 characters or less, it i people to see the answer immeTwitter can be linke blogs, and websites. For instause the Twitter button. The b people specified by the senlogged into the Twitter accounA user can also folleasy to have conversations wlong, many people will be wdifferent people.One must create anminutes. It is free to join.including uploading a pictur account to a cell phone, web program, which allows themessages to and from othersfriends is called a “tweet."
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Cons
The main
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interface, especially if yezinearticles.com
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PROPOSED SYST
A social network ser their photos, information, shand build relationships. For their interests, horoscope, tasocial network site, Individualcontaining information that wsuggest friends that shareinterest, and mind set withemerging trends in social netof "real time" and "location bato contribute content, which being uploaded - the concept
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e user to send messages tod easily. Twitter only asksoing?” As long as an answer s possible for thousands of diately.d to other social networks,nce, post a blog update andog entry will be sent to theer. This only works whent.ow other users as well. It'sth other people, and beforeatching updates from manyaccount, but it only takesimply complete a profile,e. Link the newly created page, or instant messenger user to receive and send. An update that is sent to
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