The Controversy Of Social Networking And Age Limits

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Recently, there has been much controversy around Social Networking and age limits. The first web-based social network site SixDegrees.com was launched in 1997 (Stroud, 2007). The UK’s first major experience of social networking came in July 2000 when Friends Reunited was launched. At the end of the first year it had 3000 members. As a result of press and the advertising by people lead the membership increased to 4 million members in 2001 and 8 million by the end of 2002 (Stroud, 2007). In 2005, Friends Reunited had over 15 million members and was sold to ITV, a British TV company for $120 million. MySpace was launched in 2003 and it was used by people who love music. However, teenagers started joining in 2004. Today the most popular site

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