"Do you have a facebook?" This kind of question is pretty popular among people. Facebook was, first, opened only for Harvard students, and has became oppular among stundets. Today Facebook the most popular SNS and this fenomena have covered all over the world. Not only facebook, many other successful SNSs, such as You Tube, Cyworld and MySpace, have became popular and powerful at same time.
Accroding to boyd, First SNS, six Degrees.com, was lauched 1997. Event hoguh the porpose of each SNSs are differnt, the realtion ship between people and SNS have became stronger and stronger. The main activity on SNS spca is communciation with friends. This measns SNS users have friend ship in real life and in web space(off line and on line). These two are not always exactly same, but it is clear that we need more study about how SNSs have influenced and how SNSs will work on our real life.
I am also SNSs user, and have two different SNS accounts. One is face book and another one is mixi (the biggest Japanese SNS). You may have a question "Do you need these two?". I use facebook to keep in touch with oversee friends, and mixi is for Japanese friends. Thus, my friend ship on SNS is exactly reflected by friend ship in rela life. However, I think SNS has brough some changes on my real friend ship. For example, make it easier to keep in touch friends who are in far away.
There are many type of users whoa have dieerent purposes, and the way of using of SNS are all depend on users.It must be hard, but will be pretty meaningful to study SNS.
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