Social+Networking

**__Social Networking__**

__**Definition**__ Social Netwotking- The use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself

__** History **__ Early social networking on the internet began in the form of generalized online communities such as theglobe.com(1995) Geocities(1994) and Tripod.com(1995). Many of these early communities focused on brining people together to interact with each other through chat rooms, and encouraged users to share personal information and ideas via personal web pages by providing easy to use publishing tools or free inexpensive web pages. Some communities such as Classmates.com took a different approach by simply having people link to each other via email addresses. In the late 19900s, user profiles became a central feature of social networking sites, allowing users to have lists of friends and search for other users with similar interests. Friendster.com came out in 2002. Friendster was followed by myspace and Linked In a year later, and finally Bebo. By 2005, Myspace was reportedly getting more page views than Google. Facebook launched in 2004 and has since become the largest social networking site in the world. Today there are now over 200 active sites using a wide variety of social networking.

**__Comparison of Past and Present Day devices__** Older social net working sites had less comnication. Now, pictures, games, and many more can be used on the social networking sites

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**__Purpose__** Social networking sites are not only for you to communicate or interact with other people globally but, this is also one effective way for business promotion. A lot of business minded people these days are now doing business online and use these social networking sites to respond to customer queries.

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