Social networking website

M1-R5.1 & CCC · Chapter 7: E-mail, Social Networking and e-Governance Services · 5 min read

Social networking website

  • A social networking service is an online service platform.
  • Social networking sites allow users to share ideas , activities, events and interests or make new friends.
  • The world's first Social networking website is sixdegrees (1996) developed by Ardew Weinreich.

Social Networking Websites 

1. Facebook

2. Instagram 

3. LinkedIn 

4. Blog (Weblog) 

5. Twitter 

6. Telegram 

7. Whatsapp 

8. Instant Messenger 

1. Facebook: 

  • Facebook is an online social media and social networking Service owned by American company Meta  Platforms.
  • It is the largest social networking website. 
  • It provides the facility of live video. 

Minimum age for creating account — 13 Years 

Founder(s) — Mark Zuckerberg 

Launched — February 4, 2004 

User’s — 3.07 billion currently active 

Available in — 112 languages 

Friend Limit — 5000 

Video Sharing Limit — Up to 4 GB 

Number of Reactions — 7 (Past: 6). 

2. Instagram: 

  • Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking
  • Service owned by American company Meta  Platforms. 
  • The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters. 
  • We can’t download pictures and videos from Instagram. 
  • Reels are entertaining, immersive videos. 

Maximum length of video — 1 sec to 60 sec 

Story video length — up to 15 second 

Live video time limit — 1 hour 

Initial release — October 6, 2010 

Original author(s) — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger 

Developer(s) — Facebook (Meta Platforms) 

Available in — 32 languages. 

3. LinkedIn 

  • LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. 
  • This platform is primarily used for professional networking And career development, and allows job  seekers to post their
  • CVs and employers to post jobs. 

Launched — May 5, 2003 

Founder(s) — Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly 

Parent — Company Microsoft 

4. Blog (Weblog) 

  • A Blog is a type of website that is updated regularly with new contents
  • In 1994, when blogs began, a blog was more of a personal diary that people shared online. 
  • In this online journal, you could talk about your daily life or share about things that you were doing. 
  • A blog is a type of informational website displaying information in reverse chronological order, with the  latest posts appearing first, at the top.

5. Twitter 

  • Twitter is a micro blogging, social networking service owned by American company Twitter. 
  • On which users post short messages known as "tweets". 
  • #(hash) tags are very popular on twitter. 
  • Retweet is a reposting of an old tweet. 
  • Original name of twitter is twttr 

Launched – July 15, 2006 

Founder(s) – Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams 

Tweet Length – 280 Characters (140 Character : Old limit) 

Video time limit – 140 Seconds ( 2 minute 20 second). 

6. Instant Messenger 

  • Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the  Internet or another computer network. 
  • Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties. 
  • Most modern IM applications (sometimes called "social messengers", "messaging apps" or "chat apps")  add other features such as emojis ( smileys), file transfer, voice over IP, or video chat capabilities.
  • Example of IM: Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp Messenger, Telegram Messenger etc.


 

7. Telegram 

  • Telegram Messenger is a cloud-based instant messaging (IM) service. 
  • The messenger also provides chat and video calling, file sharing and several other features.
  • You can exchange media files up to 1.5 GB 
  • Available for windows, android, Linux and ios. 
  • Initial release August 14, 2013 
  • Founder Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov 
  • Participants in group 200000 (2 lakhs). 

8. Whatsapp 

  • WhatsApp is an internationally available instant messaging service
  • owned by American company Meta  Platforms (formerly Facebook). 
  • It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images,  documents, user locations, and other content. 
  • It is the most popular messenger with more than 1 billion users. 
  • In 2014 Facebook acquired WhatsApp because of its huge number of users. 
  • It is also available in the form of Whatsapp Web and Whatsapp business accounts.
  • It provides the facility of broadcast messages. 
  • Initial release January 2009 
  • Original author(s) Brian Acton and Jan Koum 
  • Developer(s) Meta Platforms 
  • Group person limit 512 members