The Early Years of Social Networks

The Early Years of Social Networks

The Early Years of social networks

the first recognizable social network site launched in1997 Classmates.com allowed people to affiliate with their high school or college and surf the network for others who were also use it, but users could not create profiles or list Friends until years later 1998 SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and surf the Friends lists. It promoted itself as a tool to help people connect with and send messages to others. However, Early adopters complained that there was little to do after accepting Friend requests, and most users were not interested in meeting strangers. In 1999, a number of community tools began supporting various combinations of profiles and made Friends public..

Friendster was set up in 2002 , it was designed to help friends-of-friends meet, share interests allowed users to create personal, professional, and dating profiles—users could identify Friends on their personal profiles without seeking approval for those connections. MySpace was found in 2993 and it is grow rapidly. local promoters