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28 Nov 09

New stats from Nielsen Online show that by the end of 2008, social networking had overtaken email in terms of worldwide reach.
In 2008, users spent 63% more time on member communities than they did in the previous year
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- Facebook () saw growth of 566% in time spent on it by users worldwide.

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Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a routine dubbed the "Circle of Friends" (wherein the pathways connecting two people are displayed)
Classmates.com proved almost immediately that the idea of a virtual reunion was a good one. Early users could not create profiles, but they could locate long-lost grade school chums, menacing school bullies and maybe even that prom date they just couldn’t forget. It was a hit almost immediately, and even today the service boasts some 40 million registered accounts.
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- Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a routine dubbed the "Circle of Friends" (wherein the pathways connecting two people are displayed),
- Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a routine dubbed the "Circle of Friends" (wherein the pathways connecting two people are displayed)
- Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a routine dubbed the "Circle of Friends" (wherein the pathways connecting two people are displayed),
- Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a routine dubbed the "Circle of Friends" (wherein the pathways connecting two people are displayed),
- idea that a rich online community can exist only between people who truly have common bonds
- And, just a year after its launch, Friendster boasted more than three million registered users
- Introduced just a year later in 2003
- networking resource for businesspeople
- Today, LinkedIn boasts more than 30 million members.
- contacts are referred to as "connections
- s MySpace, also launched in 2003
- young adult demographic with music, music videos, and a funky, feature-filled environment
- Facebook launched in 2004 as a Harvard-only exercise and remained a campus-oriented site for two full years before finally opening to the general public in 2006
- (it now currently boasts in excess of 150 million users)

26 Nov 09

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think « Socialnomics – Social Media Blog

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Facebook Now Nearly Twice The Size Of MySpace Worldwide

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21 Nov 09

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17 Nov 09

Unfriend is New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 word of the year | StarTribune.com

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Doctors embrace social networking - South Florida - MiamiHerald.com

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She says she has cut some of her patients' healthcare costs by answering questions electronically instead of requiring office visits.
- This is a great example of how social networking, and technology, can be used to reduce health care costs. - on 2009-11-17
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10 Nov 09

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

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We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks.
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- After joining a social network site, users are prompted to identify others in the system with whom they have a relationship. The label for these relationships differs depending on the site—popular terms include "Friends," "Contacts," and "Fans.
- Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
- Most SNSs also provide a mechanism for users to leave messages on their Friends' profiles.
- Orkut, for example, was launched in the United States with an English-only interface, but Portuguese-speaking Brazilians quickly became the dominant user group (Kopytoff, 2004).
- Some sites are designed with specific ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, political, or other identity-driven categories in mind. There are even SNSs for dogs (Dogster) and cats (Catster), although their owners must manage their profiles.
- While SNSs are often designed to be widely accessible, many attract homogeneous populations initially, so it is not uncommon to find groups using sites to segregate themselves by nationality, age, educational level, or other factors that typically segment society (Hargittai, this issue), even if that was not the intention of the designers.
- According to the definition above, 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.
- SixDegrees was the first to combine these features.
- While SixDegrees attracted millions of users, it failed to become a sustainable business and, in 2000, the service closed
- SixDegrees was simply ahead of its time
- AsianAvenue, BlackPlanet, and MiGente
- LiveJournal listed
- Korean virtual worlds site Cyworld
- Swedish web community LunarStorm
- Ryze.com was launched in 2001
- the people behind Ryze, Tribe.net, LinkedIn, and Friendster were tightly entwined personally and professionally
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  Timeline of the launch dates of many major SNSs and dates when community sites re-launched with SNS features
- Friendster launched in 2002 as a social complement to Ryze
- Friendster was designed to help friends-of-friends meet, based on the assumption that friends-of-friends would make better romantic partners than would strangers (J. Abrams, personal communication, March 27, 2003).
- Friendster gained traction among three groups of early adopters who shaped the site—bloggers, attendees of the Burning Man arts festival, and gay men (boyd, 2004)
- As Friendster's popularity surged, the site encountered technical and social difficulties (boyd, 2006b). Friendster's servers and databases were ill-equipped to handle its rapid growth, and the site faltered regularly, frustrating users who replaced email with Friendster
- and a rupture of trust between users and the site
- From 2003 onward, many new SNSs were launched, prompting social software analyst Clay Shirky (2003) to coin the term YASNS: "Yet Another Social Networking Service.
- LinkedIn, Visible Path, and Xing (formerly openBC) focus on business people.
- "Passion-centric" SNSs like Dogster
- Couchsurfing connects travelers to people with couches
- Care2 helps activists meet,
- MyChurch joins Christian churches and their members
- as the social media and user-generated content phenomena grew, websites focused on media sharing began implementing SNS features and becoming SNSs themselves. Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing).
- Google's Orkut
- Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces (a.k.a. MSN Spaces)
- MySpace was begun in 2003 to compete with sites like Friendster, Xanga, and AsianAvenue, according to co-founder Tom Anderson (personal communication, August 2, 2007); the founders wanted to attract estranged Friendster users (T. Anderson, personal communication, February 2, 2006)
- MySpace changed its user policy to allow minors. As the site grew, three distinct populations began to form: musicians/artists, teenagers, and the post-college urban social crowd.
- July 2005, News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million

04 Nov 09

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19 Oct 09

Odyssey Charter School (OCS), based in Las
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Research conducted on this school available by the tile: Social Networking in Cyberschooling: Helping to Make Online Learning Less Isolating
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18 Oct 09

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14 Oct 09

The End of the Email Era - WSJ.com

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But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.
So, how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let's start with the most obvious: They make our interactions that much faster.
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- David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with "a river that continues to flow as you dip into it."

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