Kumudra Grade 9

Social Networking

Sites Comparison

Popular Social

Network Sites

What is Social Networking?

It’s a way of communicating

with others over the internet

What’s similar about all of these sites?

They help you stay in contact

and share information with

others

How can you stay in contact or share

information over the internet by joining social networks?

You can…Upload pictures and videos

Make posts to update others on

what you’ve been up to

Blog or glogAnd do many other things…

What features do these social

networking sites offer?

Name Posts/Comment/

Update

Blog/Glog Pictures Videos Add/Find Friends/Fo

llow

YouTube

LinkedIn

Foursquare

Formspring

Gowalla

Facebook

Flickr

Quora

Twitter

And many more

How many active users are there for each site?

YouTube: around 48.2 million

LinkedIn: around 50 million

Foursquare:around 3 million

Formspring: around 14 millionGowalla: around

150,000Facebook: more than 500 millionFlickr:unknownQuora: around 43,925

Twitter: more than 100

million

How do these sites benefit

YOU?

You can stay in contact with others by updating them on your life and events by using the

features the sites offer.

What do people (teenagers) that use these sites have to say about them?

Interviewing Yuna on her thoughts about YouTube.

(Video removed due to privacy issues)

Bibliographyhttp://www.numberof.net/number-of-youtube-users/http://mashable.com/2010/08/29/foursquare-3-million-users/http://blog.formspring.me/page/2/http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-use-Quorahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formspring.mehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTubehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedInhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_(social_networking)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowallahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebookhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickrhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Thank you