The combination of words "social network" was born in 1954 and had nothing to do with the Internet.
The person who invented the phrase James Barnes: "social network" is a social structure that involves individuals or groups bound to the same type of activity, common interests, friendship or relationship. So & # 39; a kind of structure is familiar people, divided into different groups where each person makes a group of classmates, colleagues, friends around him.
Year after year, this scientific concept has evolved and there are a lot of popularity. The first was the growth in North America and Eastern Europe. When we came to the social development process of information and communication, where social networks have a lot of popularity.
The first social network computers released in 1971 and uses the military ARPA Net.
1988 Year IRC (Internet Relay Chat), which provided an opportunity online conversations.
The main event of the Internet presence that Tim Berners-Lee published in 1991.
There was a network called slassmates.com was launched in 1995, it was very popular, and it has been a year of the start of the development process social network on the Internet. But there is still classmates.com
One of the most popular social networks, nearly 50 million users.
appeared in 2004
and facebook.com have become very popular all over the world instantly. The concept of this network was a little different, but made a revolution in the world of social networks. It has over 700 million users.
2008 discount service named Groupon, which is not a real social network, but uses similar principles of social networks and invite people to become part of the Groupon community.
Class
There are a lot of different social networks now, so it & # 39; and a look at some of them.
Model:
- Clasmates.com (personal communication)
- LinkedIn (business communications)
- YouTube (video)
- Last.fm (audio)
- Flickr (images)
- Groupon (purchase)
- Reddit (news)
- Forsquare (geographical)
- Tumblr (blog)
- Answers.com (questions and answers)
- Delicious (bookmarks)
- Second Life (virtual worlds)
- Slashdot (thematic)
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The region
- Hi5 (worldwide)
- QZone (country)
- InterNations (worldwide)
the first-ever ranking of the most popular, and there are a lot of different content for different groups of people and different objectives. So all people have the opportunity to find their niche and find that almost all existing objects. The most popular networks continue to grow.
The second type presents the available classifications. There are three different types of current rating: open, private and mixed. Each network was created for a purpose, and some of the networks, however, were not disclosed. And just because the business model of these networks are closed. But most of the networks are still in the public and can be used by any person in any social group. This is not liked by many people because the information is public. Various types of social networks in general are not as popular as the public networks, as users just do not like that it does not cross the limits, and prefer to refrain from such networks.
And the last type shows us the world & # 39; People from different countries and among the largest networks was a kind of union, whether that culture and skin color. Their clone was later released in various countries and regions. And now we can see a lot of different types of networks that bind to a city, region or even the social and political organization. This means that regardless of who you are and where you are you will always be a part of any type of virtual community.