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HOW PEOPLE USED TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER IN THE PAST WHEN

THERE WAS NO INTERNET AND NO NETWORKING ?

The answer is very simple and we all know is :- Via telephone and meetings.

Earlier business, sharing information, data, files, discussion etc was very difficult but due to the emergence of Internet, it has made our lives easy and convenient.

This was so because everything was done via personal contacts, meetings and all… which means through

face to face personal contacts

BUT TODAY :-

Everything is done over the internet

1. Discussions…

2. finding Solutions …

3. Sharing files…

4. information….

5. Buying/selling of almost everything.

We feel connected with our friends, family members, colleagues, corporate world, and rest of the world via internet only coz its cheap and easily available and accessible.

So the question which arises is how do we connect with these people ?

SOCIAL NETWORKING

SOCIAL NETWORK ?

A  Social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual relationships, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade. - Wikipedia

*Not to be confused with social network services.

SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

created new ways to communicate and share information

chatting, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, and so on are the features of this service.

Popular methods now combine many of these, With Face book widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely

used in North America QZone is famous in China.

NOW…. WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING ?

Put simply, social networking is a way for one person to meet up with other people on the Net.

Some people use social networking sites for meeting new friends on the Net.

Other's use it to find old friends. Then there are those who use it to find people who have the same problems or interests they have, this is called niche networking.

WHY TO USE SOCIAL NETWORKING WHY TO USE SOCIAL NETWORKING ??

Socializing Make friends Create groups, communities. Sharing information – files, music, video, pictures Create blogs Time utility Lower cost ( via – internet, mobile phone GPRS

etc) Builds credibility. Matchmaking. Business Discussions. Take advices. Advertising at a cheap cost.

SOME POPULAR SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES

2002 – ORKUT2003 – MYSPACE2004 – FACEBOOK2005 – YOUTUBE2006 – TWITTER2011 – GOOGLE+

Orkut was launched on November 17, 2002 by the Google.

It was the brainchild of Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, who developed it as an independent project while working at Google.

He developed Orkut as an independent project (all employees at Google can [Orkut Buyukkokten] spend 20% of their time working on personal interests) 

HOMEPAGE OF ORKUT

Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is owned by Criterion Capital Partners. From March 2008 to June 2010 it was owned by AOL Inc.

It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million.[4][5] In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo

HOMEPAGE OF Bebo

MySpace was inspired by the website Friendster. Friendster is also a social networking website, and allows for individuals to connect and talk with each other through the Internet.

In August 2003, the first version of MySpace was launched. The website used a number of the most popular features from the Friendster site, but changed them enough that there were no copyright issues.

HOMEPAGE OF MYSPACE

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.

The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005,and the website was developed over the subsequent months.

Now Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion

HOME PAGE OF YOUTUBE

Google+ is a social networking and identity service, operated by Google Inc.

The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only "field testing" phase.

On July 14, 2011, Google announced that Google+ had reached 10 million users just two weeks after it was launched in a "limited" trial phase.

HOME PAGE OF Google+

The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004.

Now the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 500 million people a month.

HOME PAGE OF FACEBOOK

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other user's messages called tweets.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users worldwide.

It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet.

HOMEPAGE OF TWITTER

AREAS OF BUSINESS THAT USE SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES

ADVERTISING:-Businesses are now tapping into the online world to advertise their products and servicesSocial networking websites post ads for their members which reach a greater number of people and can be seen as a form of mass mediaSome examples of successful websites include Amazon.com, Ebay, and BestBuy.com.

ADVERTISING ON THESE WEBSITESADVERTISING ON THESE WEBSITES

WE EARN CREDITS THEY EARN MONEY

TYPES OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

GROWTH OF SOCIAL NETWORKING USERS

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS

USER’S OF THESE WEBSITES

DISADVANTAGES Time wastage Terrorism Misuse of personal information Misuse of data Creation of Communities and groups for

wrong purposes Spamming Virus Misleading and misguiding people Social transformation(-ve)

CONCLUSION Part of almost everyone’s life. Every thing is this world has some +ve

& -ve’s. Teenagers are the one’s you use these

sites the most. These sites are useful to users, owners

and third party. Huge platform for data & information

sharing Growing increasingly. Scope for improvement (weak

regulatory role)

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