Emailing -> Social Network
The second facet we see in communicationism is social networking. Social networking began when emailing was first used, it was require that both the receiver and the sender must be online at the same time. Email played a big role in society because it was more handy than writing . Writing require time for the mail to deliver but with email, it sends the mail right away. The time for you to get the email is when you log onto your email account. When email was upgraded, the email client saved all your email messages online and the Post Office Protocol 3 was used to download email message to your computer and it can be deleted in the mail server. The emails were deleted in the mail server because it takes up room and it needs more space for incoming messages. By 1971, Ray Tomlinson created the "@" sign because he wanted to separate the user's name and the machine's name. However, as the time pass by, people started using social network like myspace, twitter. and facebook to communicate. Myspace was the first social network people used to communicate. The second social network is facebook and the last social network is twitter. People used social network to communicate with friends because is easier and we can share photos, music, and update statuses.
Myspace
Myspace is the first social network people used to communicate. Tom Anderson was the creator of Myspace. Myspace became popular in 2005 - 2008 and by 2006 there were 100 million account created. Myspace was a blog social network site where you can write about yourself in the page. For example you can write about yourself in the "About me", "Details", "Interests" section etc.. On myspace, you can also update your status and your family/friends can see it. You can also communicate by writing comments on each other's blog. You can choose your favorite song as your profile music and you can set your profile picture so people can comment on it. Myspace was popular until facebook comes out.
Facebook is the second social network people used to communicate with friends and family. Facebook is now the number one most popular social network. Facebook was created in 2004 and by January of 2009, facebook was ranked number one for most used social network. In June of 2012, they have over 955 millions users. The creator of facebook is Mark Zuckerberg along with his classmates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes at Harvard. Facebook allows you to comment on people's status, post and you can "like" the post or comment. You can "like" photos or shared them. Facebook allows you to "poke" people online and it sends a notification everytime you post, like, share, poke etc. on someone's profile. Another thing that made facebook so popular is they have apps like games you can play online. The most popular game on facebook is words with friends.
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Twitter is the third social network people used to communicate with friends and family. Twitter is the second most popular social network after facebook. Twitter was found in March 21. 2006 by Jack Dorsey and it became popular in July. It has over 500 million users and over 340 million tweets daily. Twitter has made it to the top 10 most visited website in the internet. On Twitter, you can follow people and see what they are updating and they can follow you. You can also follow famous celebrities and see what they are doing. You can "tweet" your status up to 140 characters of text.
Below is the percentage chart of people using twitter for:
Below is the percentage chart of people using twitter for:
- Pointless babble – 40%
- Conversational – 38%
- Pass-along value – 9%
- Self-promotion – 6%
- Spam – 4%
- News – 4%
Above shows a chart of myspace, facebook, and twitter back in 2008 - 2009. Facebook was the most popular, then myspace, and the least popular was twitter. On the left shows how many daily visitors visit the site.