Group Memeber

• Saeed Iqbal BB073089

• Touseef ahmad BB073087

• Adil Ahmad BB073091

• Waqar Ahmad BB073088

Social Networking
 Social Networking

• What you will learn today:

• What is Social Networking
• Different social networking sites
• Face book
• Social Networks by number of Users
• Face book Facts:
• Facebook in Academia
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Face book promoting hatred
• Extravert and introvert
 Social Networking

• Social Networking can be defined as a

phenomenon that has recently taken over the web,
allowing more connectivity and interaction between
web users. Several websites, such as Facebook
and MySpace are labeled as "virtual communities."
Social Networking
 Social Networking

The first officially recognized social network was

sixdegrees.com that launched in 1997.

Founded by CEO  Andrew Weinreich  and was

based in New York City. 
 Social Networking

Social Networking Factoids

• Social networks now represent the
fastest growing Internet segment – 3x
the rate of overall Internet growth.
• Social networking sites are growing at
the rate of 47% annually, reaching 45%
of total web users.
• Social networking and blogging are now
the 4th most popular online activities,
according to Nielsen’s recently released
Global Faces and Networked Places
report.
Social Networking
 Social Networking

Social Networking Factoids

• 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day

• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Face book

• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with
(pages, groups, events and community pages)

• More than 70 translations available on the site

• About 70% of Face book users are outside the United States
 FOUNDED

• Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris

Hughes founded Facebook while attending
Harvard.

• The website was successful within the Harvard

community and quickly spread to other
institutions

• Zuckerberg and Moskovitz left college to manage

Facebook as a full time job.
 Social Network

Facebook is a social networking website that was

originally designed for college students, but is now open
to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can
create and customize their own profiles with photos,
videos, and information about themselves. Friends can
browse the profiles of other friends and write messages
on their pages.
 Social Networks by number of Users

Facebook February 2004 500m

Flickr February 2004 23m

Myspace August 2003 100m

Orkut January 22, 2004 100m+

digg December 5, 2004 8.5m

Twitter July 15, 2006 190m

Facebook Facts:

• #1 Social Networking site - over 500 million

users
• Average user has 130 friends on the site

• More than 45 million status updates each day

• More than 10 million users become fans of

Pages each day
• There are also more than 1,600 Facebook
Education applications that allow students to help
each other with homework and other subject related
problems

• It is also the most cost effective way to keep in touch

with your people.
 Social Networking

in Academia
Use Facebook Groups
• Create a class-centric group
•(Batch 19 group)

NAYS
 Advantages
• Communities

• Forming communities of Interest

• Face book and Education

• National Academy of young Scientist(NAYS)

Pakistan

• Batch 19
Face book as Tool of Marketing

• It Took Radio 35 yrs to reach 50 million

people
• It Took Television 13 yrs
• The Internet 4 yrs
• IPods 3yrs
• It took Facebook less than 2yrs to reach 50
million people
 Disadvantages
• The personal information of users can be used by
people for illegal activities.
• Sites like Facebook have been used to leak out data
to 3rd parties.
• Social networking may promote Isolation
• CIA Spying on face book
• Face book can become a major distracter from
academics.
• Students social skills may suffer
• Use of Face book in offices
 Face book promoting hatred

• False Identities

• Burn Quran day

• Shia /sunni

• political parties

• I hate(………..)communities

• Do you love Islam like below if you do..

• Raymond Davis Case

 Extravert and introvert
• An extraverted person is likely to enjoy time spent
with people and find less reward in time spent alone

•  He enjoy human interactions, social gatherings etc

•  Introverts tend to be more reserved and less

outspoken in large groups.

• Face book is making people addictive leading to be

more introvert then extravert
Conclusion
Any questions?