Social Network Examples
The best way to explain how a social network works is to describe a few specific social networks. The big three social networks are Facebook, with over 800 million members; Twitter, with over 200 million members; and LinkedIn, with 120 million users. Facebook is by far the most popular and widely used social network.
Here are just a few statistics on Facebook:
- More than 50 percent of Facebook users log in every day.
- 206.2 million Internet users in the United States has a Facebook account.
- The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
- The average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups, and events.
- On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day.
- 510,000 Facebook posts are created every 60 seconds.
- More than 4 million businesses have Like Pages.
Facebook is currently the biggest and most popular social network on the Internet, and has more than 800 million active members.
Founded in February of 2004 in the dorm rooms of Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin launched The Facebook as a way for students on campus to interact, share, and connect with their friends around campus. Initially exclusively for college students, Facebook is now available in more than 70 languages to anyone over the age of 12 with an e-mail address. This social platform digitally connects people’s real-world social connections in a sage online environment.
FIGURE 2.1 Facebook
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