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This 4 page paper discusses the evolution of social networking, illustrating the development by picking out several key milestones, starting with the development of the bulletin board system (BBS) and looking at Fidonet, Friendster, Facebook and Twitter. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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globally and groups of friends may keep in touch in almost real time has taken place over time, evolving as both technology and social attitudes adapt to accommodate the high
level of connectedness. It may be argued that the first milestone in the development of social networking was the in the 1970s with the development of the bulletin board
system (BBS), although not strictly a social networking application according to the definition of Boyd and Ellison (2007) where social networking sites are web based, it is the first stage
in social interaction taking place in the remote manner, where there is a degree of public or semi public viewing as users log into the bulletin boards. These evolved from
BBSs that were initially only available by calling into a specific system, through a modem but became more available as the internet developed.
In 1984 FidoNet which had the aim of networking the BBSs was developed and launched, the protocols were then adopted and incorporated within many bulletin boards own software .
This like many other social networking elements was developed by a user on a non commercial basis. This was a key stage as it created an integrated approach as well
as lead to the use of uniform protocols. It is not until 1997, after the web has been developed and well established, which also lead to a gradual decline
of BBSs that the first social networking site that meets the criteria of Boyd and Ellison (2007) was launched, SixDegrees.com as well as being web based met the 3 criteria
of allowing users to create public or semi public profiles, to create a list of users (friends) where there was a shared connections and view the web pages of others
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