Well i thought i had to do this post about this subject, as everyone immeaditely thinks of these websites when the word social networking is mentioned. This websites are Facebook, Bebo, Twitter & MySpace.
In a way these are the most powerful websites and in the instance of Facebook seem to have ripped up the rulebook. What i mean is, if you look at the history of social networking websites, they come in, making a big noise on the web at the same time. Last about 2/3 years, then are replaced by another new social networking website. However if you look at Facebook, it came in and took the users from MySpace, the biggest social networking website before Facebook, and it looked as if the cycle was about to happen. However due to the massive amount of users on Facebook, this has given them the financial powers to stay ahead of the other websites in terms of technology and features, which means they are not going to be replaced so easily.
The only main rival at the moment to the social network crown seems to be Twitter. Twitter is unique because it is different to every other social networking website as it simply allows the user to update other "followers" of their daily actions and thoughts.
Because of this massive battle for the "king of social networking" spot i thought i would have a look for some articles on the net about the history of the major players in the market.
The first article is about Facebook and its history.
http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/
The second article is about Twitter and its brief history.
http://gigaom.com/2009/02/01/a-brief-history-of-twitter/
The third article is about MySpace and its history.
http://personalweb.about.com/od/myspacecom/a/whatismyspace_5.htm
