The Social Web of Today and Tomorrow

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The Social Web of Today and Tomorrow Justin Lawler Computer Literacy INF103 Tony Sgarlatti October 15, 2012 Social Web pg 1 I have chosen to write my research paper on the social web. The social web is used by a vast amount of people these days. The social web has been around for a long time. I will describe how it used to be, how it is now and how it will be in the future. When the social web was first created, it was relatively small compared to how it is now today. Socialization online started back in the 1960’s with email addresses. It has advanced tremendously since then. The social web or networking was originally created in the 90’s. In 1995, Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant founded a company called WELL, which could be considered as the first social networking site (1). The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web (2). “The Web is more a social creation then a technical one. I designed it for a social effect to help people work together and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web like existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner. What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web”. (3) | | | By the 90’s social networking sites

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