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Creation of social networks
A social network is a structure composed of nodes and relationships between those nodes. Rather, it is a social structure (or an aspect of a social structure) that can be modeled by nodes and relationships. Thus, when analyzing social networks, what is being carried out is an abstraction or model of a social phenomenon in which the fundamental element is the relationships between the participants. -
From Geocities to the dotcom bubble
what can be considered one of the first social networks, GeoCities, was launched for the first time. However, the original idea for this space, which later had its clone in Tripod and in Spain in Ciudad Futura, Too Much. -
mixi
is a Japanese online social networking service. -
LinkedIn
With a totally different conception, LinkedIn did not aim to gather friends, but professional contacts. It was the origin of something very common today: the creation of segmented relationship platforms, oriented to a certain audience. -
Friendster
Created by Jonathan Abrams in California, it has gone on to achieve deafening success with over a million members.
However, despite her triumph, she was ousted in a few months by the popularity of MySpace. -
MySpace
MySpace was born. Considered one of the pioneers in having multimedia resources, the network was created in just ten days and, little by little, it was adding options such as music updates, photos and even the possibility of having its own blog. -
Facebook
Created by Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning, as a service for internal use between members of a university, it has expanded and today is the largest social network in the world. Versatile and complete, Facebook is a place to generate business, meet people, network with friends , get informed, have fun, discuss and much more. -
Orkut
The network was designed to allow its members to maintain their existing relationships and make new friends, business contacts, or more intimate relationships. -
Twitter
Twitter was born. a spin-off of Odeo, the entrepreneurial adventure in which the creators of Blogger had embarked after its purchase by Google. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone created a tool that was born as an internal messaging system to give news notices but that changed the way in which television is lived or, even, revolutions are managed. -
Tumblr
This platform, launched by David Karp, has already reached its first 10 years of existence, during which time it has managed to gather a not inconsiderable amount of 364.6 million blogs. -
Pinterest
It is a platform to share images between users. They are organized around personal boards by themes where to collect images based on different events or hobbies. -
Snapchat
It was created under the name of Picaboo, an image message exchange tool on iOS. In the same year, the application was renamed Snapchat and already reached the 1,000 active user mark. -
Instagram
The most impressive growth of the year is taken by Instagram. With an accelerated increase, even the fastest already registered by the social network, Instagram has managed to reach 800 million active users per month, with 500 million accessing the application every day.
