Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Networking Service, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Graph
10 Dec 2016
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Shaped the environment and social interaction of millennials. Referred to the ultimate social media platform. Defines web 2. 0 net capitalism based on user-generated content. Remakes the form of social interaction with likes, following, tagging, pokes, friending and un-friending. Shapes the overall language of human communication. Invented by mark zuckerberg and a group of his friends at harvard with the idea of connecting with their friends at university using online means. Began thefacebook. com in their dorm room in 2003. Emailed 300 fellow students and the site took off. Zuckerberg was accuse of stealing the idea of a social network in 2004. It expanded from harvard to stanford, columbia, and yale. Napster founder sean parker invested in facebook and encouraged zuckerberg to change the web address. Membership opened to all in september 2006. Moore"s law: the computing power available at a given price doubles approximately every 2 years.
