Facebook

www.facebook.com

Facebook was set up in 2004. Mark was founded by mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It all started in Harvard University and gradually move from university to university and eventually to different countries all around the world.
  Facebook wasn't very popular until 2009, when it was the most used social networking site in the world.
  Facebook is now owned and operated by Facebook Inc.

  On Facebook you can update you own personal profile, upload photos, add others users as friends, add videos or music to you profile and lots more. But you have to be over the age of 13 to have an account of Facebook. But according to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under the age of 13 with Facebook accounts and 5 million under 10.
  Mark Zuckerberg first made a website called 'Facemash' which was like a Hot or Not competition on the Internet. Zuckerberg used photos of people in the nine houses in Harvard and got people to choose who was hotter. He got the photos from the pupils ID photos. This website was shut down a few days after due to copyright, security reasons, violation of individual privacy.
  On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com. A couple of days after the site started up, three Harvard students, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of purposely misleading them into believing he would help the st up the social network 'HarvardConnection.com' when instead zuckerberg was using their ideas to set up his own site. The tree later filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.
  Around 2005 Facebook changed from being 'thefacebook' to Facebook.
  On April 24th 2012, the amount of Facebook users are up to 900 million. The monthly growth is 1.74%. the highest amount of the monthly growth was 178.38% which was in August 2008.


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Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

The Social Network

 The movie 'The Social network' was made in 2009-2010 and was released in the cinemas on October 1st 2010.

The social network was directed by David Fincher and Produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Micheal De Luca and Ceán Chaffin. 

 Staring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella.

The movie is based on the events that took place before and during the making of Facebook.

                                          

                                          Here is the Trailer for the movie 'The Social Network'

	Video source: www.youtube.com

Twitter

www.twitter.com 

Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Even Williams and Biz Stone, in March 2006. Twitters headquarters are in San Francisco, United States.
 Twitter started when Dorsey, Glass and Williams came together and invented 'twttr', inspired by flickr. They began to work on this project on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey posted the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM "just setting up my twttr".
  "...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was." - Jack Dorsey.
The full version of Twitter was published on July 15th 2006. Twitter became its own company in April 2007.

 On Twitter you posted messages onto your own page, which can be seen by your 'followers' on the Homepage. Followers are the people or your friends who follow you on twitter. Twitter is mostly used to update your status. Twitter is also used for education reasons. Students can all go on at the same time and chat to each other about study, homework or other education related topics. Its easy to chat to you peers on Twitter you can just use the hash tag key (#) and it will show you everyone using that word, phrase or sentence.

Twitter is used by many famous people such as Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, even Barack Obama uses twitter. They tell people about tour dates, new albums and quotes from American President, Barack Obama.
  Twitters Logo is know all around the world. The Logo for Twitter has changed over the years.

                                

The first logo, used               The second logo, used              The third and current

from July 15, 2006                from September 14,                  logo, used since June 5

until September 14,               2010 until 5 June 2012.            2012.

2010. 

 Twitter had a massive increase in growth in 2010. In February 2012, Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. In June 2012, around 65 million tweets were posted each day, which is about 750 tweets sent each second, according to Twitter 

  On February 21, 2012, it was announced that Twitter and Yandex, a Russian search engine, agreed to a partnership.
  On March 21, 2012, Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday and also announcing that it has 140 million users and has 340 million tweets per day.

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Information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Bebo

www.bebo.com

  Bebo was founded in 2005 by Michael Birch and his wife, Xochi Birch. Bebo's headquarters is in San Francisco, California, United States.

   Bebo was owned by AOL, until April 2010 when they announced they were going to sell or shut down the social networking site. The Criterion Capital Partners bought Bebo for under $10 million in June 2010. Criterion Capital Partners still own Bebo to this day. The operating income is $1.1 million.

  Bebo is a social networking site where you can contact friends and family from all around the world. You can upload photos, send messages to other people, update your own profile by adding videos or music and much more.

  Bebo lost its popularity in 2009 when Facebook started to increase in popularity. People still use Bebo all around the world. Bebo, like Myspace is used by over 23m around the world.

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Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo

Myspace

www.myspace.com

Myspace is one of the first big social networking sites in the world. Myspace came around in August 2003 and is still around today. It was founded in Santa Monica by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.
It is owned by Specific Media LLC and the singer, Justin Timberlake. Myspace was the most visited social networking site in 2005 to 2008, in the world.
  Myspace became very popular among teenagers and young adults.

 In 2008, many people all around the world stopped using myspace and made accounts on Facebook. People are still currently using Myspace. Myspace had 25 million users in June 2012.
  Myspace is used in 15 different languages, including English, Spanish and French.
  If you have a myspace account bulletins are posted on to a bulletin board , you can IM(instant message) your friends, share videos and music from youtube and much more.

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Where i got my information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

Hi, my name is Hayley and I am doing a blog about the geography of social networking because everyone all over the world uses social networking sites. I am also interested in social networking site myself. I use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, so i am interested in learning more about how these, and other social networking sites, began.