Social Networking

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Social networking is group of individuals grouped together in specific groups. Like small neighborhoods, or communities. With social networking it is compared to actually person contact. The internet though is popular with social contact or networking because people go on the internet to contact people unreachable or to meet new people as well. Some advantages to social networking is you’re able to contact a person from another town, state, or country easily. Without having to rely on a sent letter, or any other form of postal mail, and some disadvantages are that there can be chance of getting viruses, or anything else on your computer. Who invented social networking? In 1995, Steward Brand and Larry Brilliant found a company called, “WELL”. This site was considered to be the first social networking site. Social networking has been expanded through, Myspace, Facebook, and much more. Teachers sometimes have contacted their students through email, myspace, and facebook. Now, teachers are considered banned to contact their students through it though.