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Social Networks
NETWORK
S
Sremaydell G
Adrián G
WHEN AND WHERE
SOCIAL NETWORKS
STARTED?
Advanced Research Projects 1997 is the year in which
Agency Network) is where it all SixDegrees was created, the
begins. This network is not only the first site in the history of social
precursor of social networks, but networks, a site that is still open
also the grandmother of the today. This site focuses on
internet. This network enabled the anyone being just six steps
exchange of information away, social circles, from the
information between higher person most distant from them
education institutions in North and that we are always all
America and was an integral part connected.
of the Internet until the transition
from TCP/IP protocols.
HOW DID THE SOCIAL
NETWORKS COME
ABOUT?
Social networks are relatively recent, dating
SixDegrees
back to 1997 when Andrew Weinreich created
what could be considered the first social
network in the world called "SixDegrees", in
which it was allowed to create profiles, locate
SOCIAL other members of the network and create
MEDIA lists of friends. This network was based on Friendster
the theory of the six degrees of separation,
which states that it is possible to connect
with anyone else in the world in just 6 steps.
At its peak, the site had 3.5 million members, MySpace
but closed in 2001. By then, the idea was
already on the table and other social
networks such as Friendster, MySpace, Orkut
Orkut
and hi5 began to emerge.
Hi5
WHAT DIFFERENT KINDS
OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
ARE THERE?
30% Horizontal social networks
Microblogging
15%
01
Whatsapp is my favorite
04
social network since in I have much more
.
privacy than in others
this I communicate
directly
02 03
I can view and upload
It is more essential.
statuses
WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL
OPINION ABOUT SOCIAL
NETWORKS