Group of people interacting socially. One or no. of individuals interacting directly or indirectly with others.
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What are Social Network Sites ?
web-based services that allow individuals
✔ construct a public or semi-public profile
within a bounded system they share a connection
✔ articulate a list of other users with whom ✔ view and traverse their list of connections
and those made by others within the system
After joining SNSs user identifies others with a label
➢Friends ➢Contacts ➢Fan – one directional tiesfollowers
FEATURES
➢Photo-sharing ➢Video-Sharing ➢Built in blogging ➢Instant messaging ➢Mobile based SNSs-Dodgeball
Web based SNSs also support limited mobile interaction
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Facebook, MySpace, and Cyworld SNSs forDogs – Dogster, Cats SNSs-Catster First Recognisable SNSs launch-1997 SixDegrees.com – allow user to create Profile,surf friend list. Promote itself as tool connect people
History of Social Network Sites
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Cyworld
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Korean virtual worlds site Cyworld was started in 1999Added SNSs feature-2001
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Swedish web community LunarStorm refashioned as SNS in 2000
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contained Friends lists, guestbooks, and diary pages
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MySpace attracted the majority of media attention in U.S. and abroad
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SNSs proliferating and growing in popularity worldwid
●Friendster gained traction in Pacific Islands, ●Orkut became the premier SNS in Brazil before growing rapidly in India (Madhavan, 2007) ●September 2005, Facebook expanded - high school students, -professionals inside corporate networks, and, everyone.
Educational Benefits Of Social Network Sites
●ScienceDaily (June 21, 2008) — researchers at the University of Minnesota ●MySpace and Facebook ●94 percent used the Internet ●82 percent go online at home ●77 percent had profile on a social networking site ●MySpace, an online forum - provides user e-mail, web communities audio and video capabilities
List of social networking sites
MySpace -
second place
end of 2008 and since September of that year
Facebook on number one ! ! !
% of People visiting Social Network Sites
Purpose of Visiting SNSs
What it Teaches ? ? ?
➢"Social Networking in Plain
English" introduces---
➢video focuses on the role of social
networking in solving real-world problems.
➢hidden nature of real-world people
networks
➢reveal hidden connections
Ning
➢Ning is an online platform ➢to create their own social networks ➢launched in October 2005 ➢co-founded by Marc Andreessen and
Gina Bianchini
➢The word "Ning" is Chinese for "peace" ➢Ning competes with social sites like MySpace
and Facebook by appealing to people who want to create their own social networks
➢social networking sites
Be Careful ! ! !
phishing attacks are on the increase.
➢Social media sites are the
perfect way for people to commit various types of malicious crimes.
➢This year the viruses are
going to get more dangerous
➢Anti phishing Websites-Fraudwatch international
Important role in Development Web Journalism
➢As on SNSs mass comunication is possible , which
is imp. Requirment in journalism
➢Immideate feed back is possible ➢Communication is possible at global basis ➢ News / information reaches to reader within little
span of time