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A GROUP PRESENTATION ON
SOCIAL NETWORKING
BY
HIMANSHU KUMAR
JIT SOM
JUHI MANDAL
KAUSHIK DAS
KINGSHUK DHAR
CONTENTS:
i. What is social networking?ii. Background info.iii. Personal benefits of social networking.iv. Some social networkings.v. Popular social networking sites.
Facebook Whatsapp Wechat Line Myspace
vi. Social networking referrers.vii. Frequency of visitation social networking sites.viii. Future of social networkings.
WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING ?
Social Networking sites is a way for people with common interest to interact with one another.
Which Includes:
-Chats
-E-mails
-Instant messaging
-Video chats
BACKGROUND INFO: Attempts to make social networking sites
began in the early 90s Some of the first popular sites were
classmates.com (1995) and sixdegrees.com (1997)
Today, there are hundreds of social networking sites, ranging from dating sites to the friendship based sites, such as Facebook and Whatsapp.
Personal benefits of social networking:
Personal “brand”.
Unique username.
One profile is better than none.
Chance to practice writing.
Technologically savvy
Employers get to know you.
Popular social networkingssites:
• FACEBOOK:
Mark zuckerberg is the founder of facebook.
Founded 4 feb 2004 (10 years ago).
More than 1.23 billions active users per day.
Now stay connected with and meet people from all over the world.
One of the most popular sites today.
WHATSAPP: Was founded in by Americans Brain Acton and Jan Koum.
Founded in january 2009.
Reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages.
claimed that 400 million active users
use the service each month.
Recently, also came in pc version.
One of the popular social networking
sites today
WECHAT: Developed by Tencent in china.
Founded in january 2011. is a instant messaging.
Has 600 million users worldwide in dec 2013.
Is 5th most used smartphone app worldwide.
LINE: Developer line corporation(subsidiary of naver corporation of south
korea).
In march 2014 line has reached 400 million users.
Share photos, videos and music with other users.
Recently they also came in pc version.
1 billion stickers sent by worldwide users on a daily basis
MYSPACE: founded in 2003 by Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson
More than 80 million profiles created
Second most viewed site in America.
was ranked 303 by total web traffic, and 223 in the United States.
Future of social networking:
As the pace of social networking continues to increase, new opportunities and challenges will arise for communities. While social networking has brought immense benefits to many sectors, certain countries and individuals remain vulnerable, whose interests
should be protected and promoted.