What is a social network?
SOCIAL NETWORK:
It's a network of people. It makes all your connections visible because you see who you are connected to. You see your "Friends" and their "Friends", it is also the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.
Under what web 2.0 category is social networks (social media) and what is the definition of that category?
INTERPERSONAL COMPUTING:
person to person,collaborative content creation; sharing and manipulation
Give the top ten social media sites a brief description and important facts about them?
10
ORKUT
Created in 2004
Social networking site owned and operated by Google.
Less popular in US, but very popular in Brazil & India.
Google’s 1st attempt at creating a social network.
9
TAGGED
A social discovery site.
Popularity peaked in 2009, declining ever since.
In 2009, named “World Most Annoying Site”.
8
LIVE JOURNAL
Virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
Each entry is its own page.
Has a Friends’ List where each Friend has their own page that contains their most recent journal entries.
7
DEVIANT ART
Online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork.
Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure.
Has over 246 million submissions & receives about 140,000 new submissions a day
Users can ‘Favorite’ or submit comments.
6
GOOGLE+
Google’s fourth attempt at a social network.
Orkut.
Google Buzz (retired).
Google Friend Connect (retired).
It enhances (incorporates) many of its online properties.
5
MYSPACE
More popular than Facebook at first.
Could customize your page.
Now has a strong music emphasis.
4
Created in 2009.
With in 9 months it had 10,000 users.
11.7 million users by December 2011.
Fastest site in the history.
80% users are women...
3
Social networking for Businesses and Professionals.
2
micro blog
send or view text based messages up to 140 characters called tweet.
in 2010, new twitter came out which can facilitate the viewing of pictures and videos.
1
created by Mark Zuckerberg and friends
named after a book which was given to the students to get to know each others.
first limited to Harvard but then in 2006 it was used as public.
second most visited site after Google.
What are two trends that predicted for social media this year?
According to the experts there are a lot of trends that are going to be appeared during this year but two of its main trends are:
- Facebook fatigue is starting to kick in...
- Twitter has come out as driver of social Tv...