Socialising on the Internet

There are different types of communication that we use to keep in touch with people.
We have looked at Instant messaging (IM) and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), see pages 19 and 20.

Social Networking has grown massively in a very short space of time, read page 21.

• The first site were set up in 1995 like www.classmate.com
• One of the first social newtorks was friend reunited in UK in 2000.

This area has grow with the development of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace, Google Plus+ etc,.

Facebook has grown massively: since it launch in 2004.

 

Facebook has also been critised for a number of things from lack of control over users to false accounts.

 

 

One major issue that has grown along side the growth of social network sites is the issue of false users.  Internet users who pretend to be someone or something they are not.

Twitter: has also grown beyond all figures.