1. Social Network Sites
(SNSs)
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Journalism
So mi, KIM

2. What is a Social Networking Site?
- Definition
• A social networking site is a website where
individuals can set up an online profile,
describing his/her interests, and add links
to other profiles.
• Generally, users are able to post personal
information, including photographs, videos,
and blog entries.

3. A History of Social Network Sites
• the first recognizable social network site launched in
1997. SixDegrees.com allowed users to create
profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf
the Friends lists.
• Each of these features existed in some form before
SixDegrees, of course. Profiles existed on most
major dating sites and many community sites.
• AIM and ICQ buddy lists supported lists of Friends,
although those Friends were not visible to others.
Classmates.com allowed people to affiliate with their
high school or college and surf the network for others
who were also affiliated, but users could not create
profiles or list Friends until years later. SixDegrees
was the first to combine these features.

4. Timeline of the launch dates of many major SNSs and dates
when community sites re-launched with SNS features.

5. What is positive side of SNSs?
• Social networking sites can be a great way to
stay in touch with a large group of people. If
you have news you'd like to share with
everyone you know, you can simply post it on
your own personal bulletin board, and it will
be distributed to everyone on your friends list.
• These sites can also be helpful for
connecting with new people, whether on a
business, friendship, or a romantic level.

6. Top Social Networking Sites
• Facebook: Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was designed
as a social networking site for Harvard students. After spreading
from Harvard through the university ranks and down into high
school, Facebook was opened to the public in 2006.
• MySpace: Started in 2003, MySpace was a driving force in
popularizing social networking and still maintains a large userbase.
A highly customizable social network, MySpace continues to
reposition itself in the industry.
• Twitter: What started out as a microblogging website has quickly
grown into a social messaging platform and one of the top social
networks in the world. Twitter is phenomenon that transcends
social networking to provide an outlet for news, trends, buzz, and
chat among many other uses.

7. REFERENCE
• Google (http://www.google.co.kr)
• http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.
ellison.html
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-social-
networking-site.htm
• http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetwo
rking/a/social_network.htm