Ethical Issues raised by Social Networking
After Internet is introduced to the world, in 1971 the first message was “qwertyuiop”
was send as the first step in social networks. So the Bulletin Board System was the first
system which lead the users to communicate through the internet. Then in 1994
Geocities, the first social networking site was introduced. At first the social networking
sites provided facilities only to create websites, group them
according to cities. Later on these facilities turn into
more advanced functions like managing a user
profile, uploading images, video chatting, etc. with
the introduction of Facebook in 2004. Starting the
baby years of social network from BBS, AOL and
CompuServe to modern day social networking sites
there were lots of changes. Nowadays among all the
networking sites Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and
LinkedIn take the lead in the popularity. By January
2016 there are 100 million for LinkedIn, 1.550
million for Facebook and 320 million for Tweeter. There are more than 600 social
networking sites found on internet.
39%
8%
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23%
10%
3%
3%
Users in millions
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Instergram Pinteest Linkedln Other
