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SOCIAL NETWORKING
History of Social Networking
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
Most Popular Social Networks
Twitter Facebook MySpace
MySpace History
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
Facebook History 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
Twitter History 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.
Twitter Cont.
Some famous people who use this site is Aston Kutcher, Demi Moore, MC Hammer, Oprah and Martha Stewart.
Interesting Facts
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.)
PrivacyFACEBOOK TWITTER
There are some privacy settings that you have to enable on the page.
Basic Privacy settings are “only friends”, “friends of friends” or “everybody”.
People have complained that strangers are looking at their pictures and wall posts.
The only privacy setting is to make your page private.- this means that you have to approve the person to follow you.
By putting this on your tweets will only be visible to users you’ve approved.
Advertising
Is expected to grow even more in year 2012
Facebook Users
Most popular
age ranges
from 18-25
Current Status
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.
Factors to Watch
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.
Facebook Timeline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi3CAn5kMdo
Questions?