Social Media, the history, what is Social Media and what are the trends and best used networks in the world

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Introduction

This paper intends to discuss the course of evolution of social media sites . Within the discussion , the paper describes the history of social media sites , how social networks were developed and how they operate . In addition , the paper will show facts and figures of major social networking sites like the Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn

History

Over the past few years

, social media has turned out to be an essential part of our lives . However , it has been there even before the launch of popular sites like Facebook and Linkedn . The difference between past years and now is that social media is extensively available to many people all over the world . Over the years , social media has been used for social activities and information gathering (Boyd 2009 . These two activities raised the concept of information sharing

According to Sundheim (2010 , the origin of social media can be traced back to 1950s when telephones were first used . During this time , several phone phreak ' groups came into being . The groups were established as a result of high cost of making phone calls . Technologically equipped individuals used to hack telephone line and use them without any payment (Knol 2009 . In addition , individuals were fond of commandeering phone corporations test lines and conference circuits so that important meeting could not take place

Twenty years later , another form of...