CCS PARTICIPATION

PARTICIPATION

A social network service is social software specifically focused on the building and verifying online social networks for whatever purpose. Many social networking services are also blog hosting services. As of 2005 there are over three hundred known social networking web sites. MySpace and Facebook are some of them.

In general, these social networks, allow users to create a profile for themselves. Users can upload a picture of them selves and can often be “friends” with other users. Social networks usually have privacy controls that allow the user to choose who can view their profile or contact them etc. some major social networks have additional features, such as the ability to create groups that share common interests or affiliations, upload videos, and hold discussions in forums.

Concerning to privacy issues, there has been concerns about users giving out to much information and the threat of sexual predators. However, large sites, such as MySpace, often work with law enforcement to prevent such incidents.


MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submited network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. MySpace also features an internet, e-mail system. It si headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA, while its partner headquartered in New York City. According to Alexa internet, it is currently, the wordl’s sixth most popular website in any language. This service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80 % of the visits to online social networking websites. The company employs 300 staff and its owned by News Corporation. With the 100 millionth account being created on August 9th of 2006, the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230.000 per day, being founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson, the current president and CEO, Chris DeWolfe, and a small team of programmers. It was partially owned by Intermix Media, which was bought in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert’s Murdock News Corporation (the parent company for Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises). Of this amount, approx. $327 million has been attributed to the value of MySpace according to the financial advisor fairness opinion.


YouTube is a popular free sharing video website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Founded in February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal, the Bruno-based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of the site content includes TV and movie and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Currently staffed by 67 employees, the company was named TIME magazine’s “Invention of the Year” for 2006. In October 2006, Google Inc. announce that it had reached the deal to adquiere the company for $1.65 billion in Google´s Stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006.