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Social Networking Websites
• What are they?
• Tool for:
• Communication
• Expressing interests
• “Nodes and Ties”
• Recent phenomena
• Digg, 2004
• Youtube, 2005
• Myspace, 2003
• Facebook, 2004
How the Technology Operates
• Specialization vs. Integration
• Youtube, Digg, Del.icio.us, Livejournal
• Myspace, Facebook
• Web 2.0
• Change in trend
• Enhanced creativity, information sharing, collaboration, and functionality
• User-contribution
• Users submit content for other users
History
Early social networking websites:
1995 - classmates.com
focused on ties between former schoolmates
1997 – sixdegrees.com
focused on indirect ties
History, cont’d
Modern social networking websites:
• 2002 – Friendster
• now mostly used in Asia
• 2003 – Myspace
• bought by News Corporation (parent company of Fox) in 2005
• most popular social networking site in 2006
• 2004 - Facebook (founded by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard as thefacebook.com)
• largest and fastest growing site in the world
• membership initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League; later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over
• 2005 - Bebo
• stands for “blog early, blog often”
History, cont’d
Developments
• Third-party applications
• Privacy settings
• Instant messaging
• News feed (Facebook)
• Music (Myspace)
Positive Aspects for Social Networking
• Ease of access to recent trends/topics
• Digg
• Faster communication over longer distances
• Facebook, Myspace, Digg
• Big audience
• Blogging (Blogger, Livejournal, Youtube, Wordpress)
• Equating computer to sociability; second life
• Facebook, Myspace
• Promoting False Identities
• Celebrities/Political
• Site Security
• Lack of customer service
• Accessibility and reliability
• Child Safety
• Stalking
• Party gatecrashing
• Crashing uninvited parties which were advertised through sites like Myspace and Facebook where anyone could see the invitation.
Criticisms against Social Networks
Criticisms against Social Networks, cont’d
• Social Exploitation and Censorship
• Social and Cultural
• Dave Itzkoff and his experience
• Censorship
• Privacy
• Security
•MIT and 70,000+ Facebook profiles
Our Opinion?
Social networking sites have caused much debate among users across the globe. They help us to connect more easily to others, display our interests in a public forum, and allow us to forge connections despite vast space between users.
Positive aspects:
• Simple, user friendly set up and personalization
• Usually cost efficient/free
• Easily accessible and globally available
Positive aspects notwithstanding, there are some arguments against social networking sites, including:
Our Opinion? cont’d
• Lack of privacy/ control over what is public and not
• Encourages procrastination
• Tendency to compartmentalize and make vague and occasionally unfair assumptions about others
Generally speaking, social networking sites are seen as positive among the CMU community.