Social media or social networking


A deep understanding of the social media concept is explained here in detail. The term social is relating to social interaction with individuals and groups by sharing contents and personal information. While media is referring to means of mass communication used in society as television, radio, newspaper and the Internet. Social media as a complete term can be seen as the applications and websites that facilitate users to interact with other people and share similar interests. To our knowledge, no one has any certain idea about who was the person or company to create the term social media. However, a recent study by the Time Warner Press Release concluded that “ICQ is an instant messaging client that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You». “Ownership of ICQ passed from Mirabilis to AOL in 1998, and from AOL to Mail.Ru Group in 2010”.  See ICQ Surpasses 100 Million Registered Users, Time Warner Press Release - May 09, 2001 (accessed 2015-05-12). It was one of the new types of social media at that time that attracted people to use emoticon and deliver emotions online. In this respect, social media started to change lives of people or groups and the way they interact with other users. After that another social media site was designed in 1995, Classmates.com; this has been discussed by a great number of authors in literature bringing some information about the creation of this social media site. “In 1995, Classmates.com was created. On this site, users were able to create profiles and locate grade school friends/classmates who they've managed to lose connections with over the years. Classmates.com was on to something big—bigger than the world could ever imagine. This “new media” changed the traditional transmission of information and the foundation of building social relationships, forever.” wikibooks.org/wiki
  Besides this classmate.com site, another new and popular social media site that stole attention of people was designed in 2002 known as Friendster. It was created to allow users to connect with other people and share online contents, videos, pictures, messages and status with other members via networks. It is seen as one of the original social networks. Then LinkedIn and MySpace are also listed on social networking sites launched in 2003.
LinkedIn is different from other social sites in that it was created for the aim of professional networking. It has advantage as workers or employers created their profiles aims to connect with each other and help find other business associates. As for MySpace, it was founded on August 1, 2003 in Beverly Hills, California. It was an interactive social networking website where users submitted personal profile, photos, blogs, music and videos. MySpace was the most popular social networking worldwide among teens in 2004 but unfortunately, users lost interest because it failed to retain the social network crown after the development of facebook application that centers on music platform only.  It was reported in literature by some authors that “In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S. visitors in May 2009” See "Google's antisocial downside – CNET News". News.cnet.com
  In the same manner, it would be of special interest to discuss next some of the most popular social media sites that explored by the world today and in which some are used for personal objects or business. 

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