Social networking for creative retirement

Drum roll, please…Honoria Balogh presents

Social Networking 101

• OMG! Have you ever ROTFL? If you are confused, you are not alone. Social networking is the thing of the present, used by young and old. This presentation will explore sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter and their place in today’s communication. TTYL.

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Connectivism

• Learning theory for digital age developed by George Siemens

• "know-how" and "know-what" are being supplemented with "know-where" (the understanding of where to find the knowledge when it is needed), and meta-learning is becoming just as important as the learning itself

What is a Social

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Social Network = Social structure made on individuals connected by interdependency, such as

friendshipkinshipcommon interest$$$$common likes/dislikessexual relationshipsbeliefsknowledge or prestige

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Blogs

Wikis

Social Networks

RSS Feeds

Top US SitesFacebook General. 400,000,000 Open

Habbo General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. 162,000,000 Open to people 13 and older

MySpace General. HTML based site. 130,000,000 Open to ages 13 and up.

Windows Live Spaces Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) 120,000,000 Open

Twitter General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates 75,000000 Open

LinkedIn Business and professional networking 65,000,000 Open to people 18 and older

Flixster Movies 63,000,000 Open to people 13 and older

MyLife Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerly Reunion.com) Open

Classmates.com School, college, work and the military Open to people 18 and older[37]

Bebo General Open to people 13 and older

Flickr Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide Open to people 13 and older

Last.fm Music Open to any age or gender

MyHeritage family-oriented social network service Open

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Top Foreign SitesQzone General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China

users 200,000,000 Open to the General Public

Habbo General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. 162,000,000 Open to people 13 and

older

Orkut General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in Brazil and increasing, in India. 100,000,000 Open to people 18 and

older, (Google login)

Friendster General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world

Open to people 16 and older. No children allowed

hi5General. Popular in India, Portugal, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa and Latin America. Not popular in the USA.

Open to people 13 and older. No children allowed

Vkontakte Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. Biggest site in Russia 72,200,000 Open

NetlogGeneral. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Québec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.

Open to people 13 and older

Odnoklassniki Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics 45,000,000 Open

Badoo General, Popular in Europe 37,000,000 Open to people 18 and older

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Web traffic

• Google• Facebook• MySpace• Twitter• LinkedIn• Flickr

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