Social networking
Ananya Das, A Level student, Cephalon International Dhaka
When DeWolfe and Anderson launched Myspace, social networking was limited to chatting and instant messaging. Five years later, with the advent of new players on the arena like hi5 and Facebook, online socialising is a revolution to say the least. We Bangladeshi youths are ardently keeping up the hype by adding a plethora of users eager to make new online friends. However, our contribution to creating such innovative concepts is negligible. Without being a face in the Facebook, doesn't any of us get the impulse to design a new site to try to join the ranks of Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim? As the web becomes more interactive than ever, concepts like social networking are lucrative businesses, with popular sites like Youtube being bought for princely sums like $1.5 billion by giants like Google. Pioneering sites like Google and Yahoo are established limited companies dominating cyber users. We are still the dices in this game, getting hooked at every new site that gets hot. However fun it is, the real winners are people like Zuckerberg and DeWolfe while we are just following their trail. It is high time we stand up and be active members of the industry.
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