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SixDegrees is recognized as the first social network. Its users could create their own profile, it contained their list of friends and schools. It disappeared in 2001 (Pérez-Latre,2011). Reference
Pérez-Latre, Francisco Javier, Portilla, Idoia, & Blanco, Cristina Sanchez. (2011). Social networks, media and audiences: A literature review. Comunicación y Sociedad (Pamplona, Spain), 24(1), 63–74. -
LInkedIn is considered to be the world's biggest professional networking website (Bamigboye et al., 2020). Reference Bamigboye, O.B., Aderibigbe, N.A., & Oduwole, O.K. (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AS MEDIUMS OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES DELIVERY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, 6(3),49-59.
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This was a social media site in which users could connect with friends, family, and meet new friends globally. Due to technical problems and a bad redesign of the website, the site lost popularity and is now defunct (Hanson & ProQuest, 2016). Reference Hanson, J., & ProQuest. (2016). The social media revolution: an economic encyclopedia of friending, following, texting, and connecting. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
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Before there was Facebook, there was MySpace. Users of MySpace could create their own profiles, which included music or movie preferences, and also share their blogs ( Pérez-Latre, 2011). Reference Pérez-Latre, Francisco Javier, Portilla, Idoia, & Blanco, Cristina Sanchez. (2011). Social networks, media and audiences: A literature review. Comunicación y Sociedad (Pamplona, Spain), 24(1), 63–74.
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Hi5 is a social networking site that still exists today. Its users can create their own profiles, where they can post their personal information. They can add friends and can even play games on this website. Reference Pérez-Latre, Francisco Javier, Portilla, Idoia, & Blanco, Cristina Sanchez. (2011). Social networks, media and audiences: A literature review. Comunicación y Sociedad (Pamplona, Spain), 24(1), 63–74.
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With over 2 billion users worldwide, Facebook is one of the biggest social media websites used today. Its users can create profiles, add friends, send messages, upload media, and use it as a social marketing tool (Bamigboye et al., 2020). Reference Bamigboye, O.B., Aderibigbe, N.A., & Oduwole, O.K. (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AS MEDIUMS OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES DELIVERY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, 6(3),49-59.
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Flickr is a unique social media platform that allows its users to share photos and videos with friends and family members ( Pérez-Latre, 2011). Reference Pérez-Latre, Francisco Javier, Portilla, Idoia, & Blanco, Cristina Sanchez. (2011). Social networks, media and audiences: A literature review. Comunicación y Sociedad (Pamplona, Spain), 24(1), 63–74.
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YouTube is a video-sharing site were users can not only view and share content, but they can also create and upload their own videos (Bamigboye et al., 2020). Reference Bamigboye, O.B., Aderibigbe, N.A., & Oduwole, O.K. (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AS MEDIUMS OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES DELIVERY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, 6(3),49-59.
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Twitter is a social media website were users can micro-blog and post their daily activities and news (Bamigboye et al., 2020). Reference Bamigboye, O.B., Aderibigbe, N.A., & Oduwole, O.K. (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AS MEDIUMS OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES DELIVERY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, 6(3),49-59.
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Tumblr acts as both a social networking website and a micro-blogging site. Its users can post multimedia content and share blogs (Hanson & ProQuest, 2016). Reference Hanson, J., & ProQuest. (2016). The social media revolution: an economic encyclopedia of friending, following, texting, and connecting. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
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Pinterest is an image-sharing social media website. Users can arrange and pin things that interest them, as well as share a wide variety of multimedia content (Hanson & ProQuest, 2016). Reference Hanson, J., & ProQuest. (2016). The social media revolution: an economic encyclopedia of friending, following, texting, and connecting. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
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Instagram is a mobile online social network that allows its users to take videos and pictures and share them with others (Hanson & ProQuest, 2016). Reference Hanson, J., & ProQuest. (2016). The social media revolution: an economic encyclopedia of friending, following, texting, and connecting. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
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SnapChat is a social media platform that allows its users to exchange multimedia content. The content is available for a limited time period only, after which it disappears (Hanson & ProQuest, 2016). Reference Hanson, J., & ProQuest. (2016). The social media revolution: an economic encyclopedia of friending, following, texting, and connecting. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
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TikTok is a mobile social media platform, that has gained tremendous popularity over the past few years worldwide. Its users can view, create, and share videos (Omar, et al., 2020). Reference Omar, Bahiyah, & Dequan, Wang. (2020). Watch, Share or Create: The Influence of Personality Traits and User Motivation on TikTok Mobile Video Usage. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 14(4), 121–137.
