Media has grown to massive heights, it has changed the way that people drive political, social, and economic chance. Facebook was a student creation and it’s total value is around $100billion.
Friendster was founded in 2002 and allows people to discover friends.
MySpace was founded in 2003 and introduced Instant Messaging for their users to communicate with one another in 2006. It also allows users to publish blog posts so that they can let other users know what they’re doing.
LinkedIn was founded in 2003 and was one of the first mainstream social networks devoted to business. It allows it’s users to post a profile/résumé for other users to see and to interact through social messaging.
Neal Gorenflo created Shareable in late 2009, which allows it’s users to share things from ideas and clothes to cars and money. He said “Business has spent centuries making buying really easy. We’re just at the beginning of making sharing easy”. It was spawned by a confluence of the economic crisis, environmental concerns, and the maturation of the social web. An entirely new generation of business is popping up. Linux enables programmers to share code, Facebook allows people to share their lives, Twitter allows people to share their thoughts and YouTube encourages users to share their content in video form.
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Ashton Elizabeth Timmins 