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Social Networking for social studies

Activity: General history of social networking in the early.

 Beginning from 1900-2000

 New era in social networking
 New millennium
 Top social networking sites that people are using 2015-2024
Social networking sites is define as web-based service that allow individual to
1. Construct a public or semi public profile within a bounded system
2. Articulate a list of other users within whom they share connection
3. View and traverse their list of connection and those made by other within the system.
( academic.ouo.com “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”)

History of Social Networking Sites

Year History of Social Networking

December 1995 Classmate was launched as a list of affiliations that is founded by Randy Conrads and later
corporate feature like member profile and friend list. In 2004, it was sold to United Online
and suffered from a strung of controversies, including an investigation by Andrew Cuano,
who was New York Attorney General at the time. The company has been rebranded as a
center for nostalgia called Memory Lane
May 1997 Six Degrees was launched which combines popular features such as profile, friend list and
school affiliation in one service. This was founded by Andrew Weinreich and is widely
considered to be the very first networking sites. The site has million of registered user, du
to the lock of people connected to the internet, networks were limited. It would be few
years before the internet infrastructure could catch up with the concept of social network
The sites was sold in December 2000 to Youthstream Media Networks
New Era in social Networking

October 2001 Ryze was launched by Adrian Scott. The site allowed users to build profiles, add friend, an
send messages and this site was a precursor to Linkedln. It was been speculated that
Friendster’s founder Jonathan Abrams was an early member of the site and was inspired
 create a dating version of Ryze. The website claims to have more than 500,000 members
over 200 countries
March 2002 While there were social networks that existed before Friendster, none of them engaged th
mainstream with the some success. This site was built on the premise that people were
separated by six degree and was launched by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin. This is a
feature showed how you were connected to stranger meeting people less intimidating an
highly addictive. It was also considered a safe way to meet potential dates online, howeve
encountered many technical hiccups. Frustrated users began migrating away from the
popular social network and on its rival Myspace. The company is still credited as giving bir
to the modern social movement. In May of 2011, the sites abandoned user profile and
transitional into a social entertainment site
May 2003 Linkedln was launched by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean
Luc Vaillant. The site had 4,500 members within the first month. What began as a place to
post resumes online evolved into a business networking site which continued to grow,
adding new features like hiring solution for companies. In the spring if 2011,the company
went public and become the biggest initial public offering for an Internet company to date
since Google
June 2003 hi 5 was able to turn a profit within it first year and was founded by Ramu Yalamanchi. Th
site gained popularity in Latin America Countries, Mongolia, Tunisia and Romania. At one
point in 2007, hi 5 was second only to Myspace in terms of traffic
August 2003 Myspace was founded by several employees from the internet marketing firm eUniverse.
The core team included Brad Greenspan, Chris De Wolfe, Josh Berman and Tom Anderson
known for bonds pages customizable profile and a culture of online stalking. My space w
the no.1 websites in 2006 and was valued at $ 12 billion in 2007. In 2005, News Corporati
bought Myspace parent company for unprecedented $580 million. By April of 2008,
Facebook took the title no. 1 social network in the web. Despite several redesign attempt
the company could not revive it’s brand dominance therefore News Corp. Sold the site fo
$35 million to the advertising firm specific Media
January 2004 Orkut was launched where in membership was by invitation which was meant to create a
environment of trusted friend, but the site may have been too exclusive. It never succeed
at overtaking Friendster or Myspace, and is generally thought as failure in U.S market. Wi
the interviews with former Google vice president of location and local service Marisa May
explained the reason behind the blip
February 2004 Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg. The Harvard sop homore was alleged to hav
stolen idea for the site from Olympic rowers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and their
partner Divya Narendra. The three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, which was settled o
of court. This site was initially exclusive to Harvard student and eventually rolled out to th
public in September 2006. Privacy concern gave been a constant issue with the company
from the Beacon program that extracted user data from third party website without
permission to the complicated privacy setting. Zuckerberg contained to more the compan
forward and is now the top social networking site and second only to Google in web rank
March 2005 Yahoo! 360 degree was launched. This site provide profiles , blogs and content for membe
and other integrated Yahoo! Products like Flicker, Yahoo! Music and Messenger. The prod
never took off in the U.S and was shutdown in July 2009. The online directory announced
user in 2007 that they would transition into a new universal Yahoo! profile
July 2005 Bebo was launched by Michael and Xochi Birch. The social network widget style profile
editor was easy to navigate and was a main draw for young users. By 2008 the site had 34
million registered members. The site was sold to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. The
media giant was unable to competes with Facebook and reportedly sold the company to
Criterion Capital Partner for less than $10 million in June 2010
July 20011 Googlet was announced in the official Google Blog. The search engine was giants latest
venture in social media is probably it most complete attempt yet. The site offers feature
similar to Facebook such as newsfeed, photo albums and groups. Googlet moves an inch
ahead of Facebook by adding a video chat room called Hangouts
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