History of Social Network ~ Social Network

Hello people, I hope you have a wonderful day as I’m going to talk about the history of social network. I’m sure you are very curious to know more especially on how our human kind develop this social network. Back then, computer were used by military for the purpose of command and control. Then, they decide to expand it to some area that are private and only viable for military staff. After that, computer are open to public but most of it function and feature are only for technology purpose like machine code , coding and etc.

It was boring and lack of function until they create a system called BBS (also known as Bulletin Board System). It is an online community before world wide web were created, It also open to many boundaries that they never do before ,they can now shares their hobby or interest regarding music, movies, books or anything and people will download it using telephone line modem. BBS become so popular and even right now some people still use it.

Other than BBS, we also have another option to communicate in that era and in fact it launch earlier than BBS. It is an online service that were called as CompuServe. However, this online service are actually for business oriented until they decide to official release it as public domain for social communities. It able to do what BBS can do such as shares content, news and event but with an added feature like interact with others people by using an email. CompuServe have a forum that are varies with a different kind of discussion in it. Starting from years 2002, we get more social network on the way with variety of interface.

The first successful social network are Friendster created by Jonathans Abraham. Jonathans tell that Friendster were created for dating but most people used it to interact and chat with friends. The network become popular with over one millions people register. However, Friendster fallout from it reign as the top social network because of it mediocore management and decision. Now, Friendster become a gaming sites. For people near age like me and my friends, we never really get to used Friendster much.

                Myspace was launch on 2003 and later become one of the top social network at that times. Myspace become the rival of Friendster (Still the king of social network) at the current era. Until people realize that they get a lot of feature when using Myspace compare to Friendster. Since Friendster lack of decision to improve cause it to lose many users. I get to try Myspace and I must say that it is fun with plenty customizable for your profile page. After that, Myspace replaced Friendster as the king of social network but it didn’t took so long for Myspace to decline too. Right now, Myspace become a site for music band and artist.

                Facebook were introduced on 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and It reign as the king of social network till now. Facebook were so popular because of it convenient user-friendly interface and constantly update their sites frequently which lead to good improvement. For me, Facebook are so simple and even the elders and children know how to use it.

                Learning about social network history are important because there a chance that these social network might be unknown later to younger generation unless if you do tell them their existence. For instance, the fate of Myspace and Friendster whos almost unheard today. So I hope you did gain some knowledge by reading this. That all for today blog post, thank you for reading.

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