CCS (Participation Research)

There is software that is specifically made for the building and maintaining websites that handle social networks. Many of these websites offer blog hosting services. Some of the most popular social networking sites are Myspace, Blogspot and Facebook. Most of these social networks allow users to create a unique profile where they upload pictures and enter information about themselves, e.g. likes, dislikes. Some of them have privacy controls where only friends who are added in their profile are allowed to contact them or make comments.

One of the biggest social networks is MySpace. It is currently the world's sixth most popular website. It has over 100 million accounts registered. It was founded by Tom Anderson in July 2003 and was bought for $580 million by Rupert Murdock's News Corporation. Another very large social network is YouTube, which allows users to upload videos and share them to the world. This was founded in 2005 by three former employees of Paypal. Videos of almost anything can be found, from trailers of films, amateur films, old cartoon series etc.