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The World Wide Web is continuouslytransforming people's lives and society. The Internet has had plenty of famewith websites that have marked their place in popular culture. First there wasEbay and then came Napster, and now popular sites such as Myspace and Facebookare becoming day by day a cultural phenomenon. There are plenty of legendarywebsites still around such as Yahoo and Google, which are search engine sites. Inaddition Yahoo and Google have jumped on to the social networking bandwagon.What is social networking? It is everywhere, but today it mostly relates to theInternet.
Social networking has been around forquite some time. The earliest social network site was Classmates.com, which wasput up in 1995. This website gave people the opportunity to re-connect withformer high school classmates online. Classmates.com still exists but very fewpeople knew is that it would fuel invitation sites very soon. Today there arecurrently over 75 social networking sites out there.
Myspace being the ?daddy? of allsocial network sites has been, at one point, recognized as the third mostpopular English language website in the world. According to Alexa.com (Internettrafficking website) Myspace is today ranked 9th while Facebook isahead in 4th place. Facebook started out as being exclusivelyavailable just to college students. While it popularized among college studentsrapidly, Facebook quickly opened the site to high school students in 2006 andsoon after to the entire world. One of the biggest differences from Myspace andFacebook is that on Myspace people can add html and many other profilecustomizations to their name while Facebook is just plain text. These websitesmake revenue through their sponsors which are typically advertisers fromcompanies across various industry spectrums.
The amazing popularity of networkingsites exploded worldwide due to a few fundamental components of humanrelationships. For example, imagine if we try to understand traffic in a citywithout having any maps. Without having any idea how interconnected thedifferent roads are we will generally become intrigued by people get around. Aswe quickly learn through reference points how to navigate around the city we quicklydiscover how interconnected the roads really are. Social networks work in thesame way that as humans, we have no idea how interconnected we all really are.By joining a social network we quickly discover the power of a network and thecommonalities we have amongst each other. This cultural phenomenon has madewebsites like Facebook and Myspace what it is today.
Today these social networking websiteshave become even more specialized. One example of the latest, more narrowlytargeted websites out there today is a social network called RVBug.com. RVBugis a great RV social network for RV enthusiasts, retailers, wholesalers,dealers, consumers, and everyone in between. RV provide a place for anyonerelated to the RV industry to connect with one another, share tips and ideas, postconsumer reviews, and gossip about the latest trends within the industry. Thesetypes of websites are quickly becoming the next generation of social networks.