The Social Network Revolution

    People do not realize the immense impact social media has on their lives.  Social media first impacted people’s lives with the invention of the telephone in 1890.  Following this, the radio entered many homes in 1891; this was the beginning of social media.  During the twentieth century, computers and the Internet began the modern rise of today’s social media. UseNet, in 1979 was a virtual newsletter, which began what people think today of as modern social media.  When home computers became popular during the 1980s, such sites as relay chats took off.  Then, in 1997, the first true social media site , Six Degrees, came about: “It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today” ( “Complete History of Social Media: Than and Now”). Although social media has some positive effects,  social media has changed the world for the worse because it negatively affects politics, privacy, and bullying.

The internet has changed the world as we knew it. The world no longer communicates, does business, or perches commodities in the same a traditional way. E-mail, instant massager and chat rooms were the first innovations to be used by the public. As time went on more and more people depended on the internet to communicate with each other. It did not take long for the U.S. Postal service to see the decline in mailed letters. With the internet being so easy to access and email being so easy to use it quickly became the preferred way to communicate with family and friends over long distances. Companies soon followed suit to better serve their clients.

The Internet is an electronic way of communicating, socializing and also can also be used as a research tool. With the internet, you have tools like emails, chat services, video streaming or facetiming and more importantly, social networking apps like Facebook, which is used to search people like and comment on statuses and upload pictures. Twitter, used to share quotes, pictures or videos that someone has posted. Snapchat, is used to upload pictures and videos and screenshot other people's media and so on. Using social media is a way to possibly a way to catch up with old friends from the past or to make news ones.

During 1980s, Usernets being use by most of user as an online discussion system and also as viewed using which is a news reader. Online services like CompuServe and prodigy have come after BBSs were these were the first online service that attempts on accessing the internet. Other than CompuServe and prodigy other online service that exists in 1985s is Genie. Genie was a text based service other than that Genie provided games, shopping mail, and forums which called as Roundtables. In year 1988, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was develop and it’s been used mostly for sharing file, link sharing, and also keep in touch. Furthermore, in 1997 when SixDegree.com been introduced as the first modern social media, it have interact millions of user during that year. SixDegree allowed user to create their profile and also become friend to another user. In 1997 until 2001 many social media tool that being introduced such as AsianAvenues, BlackPlanet, and MiGente. Its function to allowed uses to create personal and user also able to identify their friend profile without approval. In year 2000, social media have greatly transformed the way of interaction of among the user in share their common interest, music, education, movie, friendship and other in using social media. Friendster have bought the huge phenomena in 2002 where these social media able to interact most of the society all over the world to signup. Basically Friendster allowed the user to

The introduction and the spread of the Internet have revolutionized the way individuals communicate and interact with each other. According to Van and Thomas, propagation of this medium of interaction or communication makes it unimaginable to remember that only a few decades back when people had to wait for days, weeks or even months to receive letters from their friends, relatives, or various agencies (3). Today, the internet has made communication quick and cost-effective for most of the people. The latest innovation or by-product from the web is social media. There are various social media platforms, which individuals find new friends, keep

Online networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are key ways that individuals speak with each other. Prior to this period of technology, society

In the 1960’s, the first ever email was sent, and this was where online social media began to commence. Although the first recognisable social media website was called Six Degrees, and was not created until 1997. This allowed users to design a profile and chat with other users on the site – however, two years on, in 1999, the first blogging sites started to become popular, which is what started the social media sites that we know today. This lead to social media exploding in popularity, and next is how social media has evolved.

People can travel across the world and still be able to connect with their families and friends. Because of social media networks, people are now able to interact with thousands of others all over the world, which is why some people have thousands of Facebook friends or tens of thousands of Twitter followers. Without social media, that would be impossible. Social media networks allow us the opportunity to share opinions with a far wider audience. In the past, unless people spoke directly, there was no way to get a message across. Now people can use social media to get their messages out to thousands or even millions of people

The words that are typed tend to characterize or define most people and what they are saying. An advantage of online communication, like a search engine is that it makes it can make it much easier for the user to search, share and spread the information as soon as it becomes relevant to the media. It would take a lot longer for news to be spread with only using face to face communication. Social media can serve as an accessible way on acting on issues and causes that affect and captivate most people. Social networking services can be used for organizing things and to showcase issues and opinions and make a wider audience aware of them. The internet is something that definitely encourages discovery. If someone is interested in a specific ideas, it is predictable that their interest will be accommodated for by something on the internet. Social networking services have the ability to help people develop their interests and find other people all around the world who share the same interests and ideas. It’s harder to spread ideas with others using face to face communication, because you have to actually be with the person. Anyone with internet access is able to share their ideas and experiences with others which would lead to the introduction of new ideas and that can deepen their devotion of existing interests. The internet is something that is used help broaden

A social network, as defined by Oxford Dictionaries, is “A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.”(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/social-network). Facebook is one of the largest social networks in the world, millions of users in Canada alone access Facebook daily. Many topics of discussion are addressed including matters of personal issues, work, relationships, and politics. As a result, Facebook has become a primary source for information;

On a societal level, social network is invented at first as a mean of communication in order to bind

The internet is the easier way for people to communicate with each other. It has made the world smaller by bringing people together everywhere and any time. This invention has important tools for people to contact and it has changed their way of communication in today busy world. In fact people are becoming totally dependent on the internet as a way of communication in their daily life, business and work. The limitation of old communication tools has made the use of internet for communication is wider all over the world .

In 1999, Friends Reunited, the first online social network to achieve prominence, was founded in Great Britain aiming to relocate past school pals. In 2000 more than seventy million computers were connected to the internet. This played as the exposition while it seems it would be the climax of the cyberspace world. 2001 began the rising action with the start of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and the world’s largest Wiki was started. As well as Apple selling iPods. iPod’s would give people more access to personal music and then in later years resulting in the iPod touch which enabled people to download apps, games, books, and social networks.

Nowadays, Internet become the most important thing in real life of each person because people can use the social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube to communicate with each other.The fact is that most of people know how to use Internet from children to adult. The most common technology devices these days are tablet, computer, laptop, and smartphone. They like it because they can do whatever they want on the Internet with these devices. Besides communicating, people also use Internet to listen music, watch movies or films, and play video games. The social networks is created to help connect people with someone who far away or making new friends. Social networking will become the most helpful thing if people know how to use it in the right way.

Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others (Ellison, 2007). These sites could be used for work related situation, romance, connecting with individuals with shared interest, or creating a connection amongst college students. Facebook enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate ‘‘friends’’ who can post comments on each other’s pages, and view each other’s profiles (Ellison, 2007). Individuals can write on the wall of friends, send private message, comment on posts, as well as chat via instant messaging. Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Ellison, 2007).