Facebook or abbreviated as FB is a popular social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student born May 14, 1984 and former Ardsley High School student. Its membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College. In the next two months, its membership expanded to other schools in the Boston area (Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and all schools are included in the Ivy League. Many other universities are then added in succession within one year after its release. Finally, people who have e-mail address of a university (such as. Edu,. Ac,. Uk, etc.) from around the world can also join this social networking site.
Furthermore, also developed a network for top-level schools and some large corporations. Since 11 September 2006, people with e-mail address to register anything on Facebook. Users can choose to join one or more networks are available, such as on school, workplace, or geographic region.
Until July 2007, facebook has the largest number of registered users among the sites that focus on schools with more than 34 million active members from around the world possesses. From September 2006 to September 2007, its ranking rose from 60th position to the position of the 7th most visited sites, and is the number one site for photos in the United States, ahead of other public sites such as Flickr, with 8.5 million photos uploaded every day.
Entertainment features in Facebook is called an application. Examples include video games, quizzes, and so forth.
Twitter is a micro-blogging sites and social networking web sites that provide facilities for users to send a "renewal" of writing text with a maximum length of 140 characters via SMS, instant messaging, electronic mail, or applications like Twitterrific and Twitbin. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Obvious Corp., the company longer. Twitter word literally means 'sing'. This site has the concept of micro blog in its use. In Indonesia, the social networking site has quite a lot of active users.
The success of Twitter makes a lot of other sites to imitate the concept, sometimes offering local service of a country-specific or combine with other services. One source even mentioned that there are at least 111 websites that have a service similar to Twitter
Friendster, which was derived from the idea of naming the Napster name, is a social networking website that provides facilities to create a profile and then fill in the data itself to then get an account on Friendster. In Friendster, we also can see our friends of friends and friends of friends of friends, in addition to seeing our own friends.
Friendster was started in 2002 by Jonathan Abrams and now has passed the beta test period. Since early 2005, Friendster has also started a blog feature.
Currently, Friendster has internationalize the language that was originally only English, is now available Indonesian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Bahasa Malaysia.
Since December 2009 Friendster MOL Malaysia has purchased for U.S. $ 100 million.
MySpace is a popular social networking website that offers a network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults around the world. MySpace is the place to promote new bands. The headquarters site is located in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Multiply.com provide blog services. Blogs that post to Multiply.com can be automatically forwarded to your LiveJournal, Blogger or TypePad. It is also possible to post via electronic mail or MMS. Users can also comment on a movie or book, and users can also share your schedule based on the calendar.
