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HISTORY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

  • Sixdegrees

    Sixdegrees
    SixDegrees.com was a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com)
  • Cyworld

    Cyworld
    Cyworld is a South Korean social network service operated by SK Communications, a subsidiary of SK Telecom.
    Members cultivate relationships by forming Ilchon or "friendships" with each other through their minihompy.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld)
  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake.Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace)
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook is an online social networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook)
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube)
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter)
  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. Users can browse other pinboards for images, "re-pin" images to their own pinboards, or "like" photos. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest)
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio now typically used by mobile device cameras.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram