http://socialtimes.com/the-history-of-social-media-from-1978-2012-infographic_b89811
Interesting to see how the sites that get bought out and combined into new ones dont seem to survive and other sites continue to grow and succeed like Facebook, Twitter and new entries like Pinterest and Tumblr. From this info-graphic it seems that social networks start growing into big institutions from 2002 onwards. This could be due to people getting used to instant messaging serves like AOL messenger and start demanding more and wanting to interact in more ways. Plus looking at the internet adoption graph there is 63% of the American adult using the internet in 2002 then this figures only increases after. Would be interesting to get more information on deceives and compare them to this information.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10719042
This graph from the BBC News website shows the growth and decline between different sites. I would be interested to find out how different social networks compare and how they impact on society? Does twitter allow a voice for more breaking news? or does facebook act like a place for people to organise behind closed doors? Is there a roll for one website, does any of these communities affect the world we live in?
Do social networks exist as we are lonely within society? or maybe we are too lazy to go out of our way to create physical relationships?
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