A
social
network
is
a
website
where
people
____________________
with
`friends'
-
-
people
they
know
online
and
people
they
know
in
____________________
life
.
The
beginnings
of
social
networking
____________________
____________________
to
the
1980s
.
Small
computer
networks
that
used
telephone
lines
____________________
users
to
log
in
,
share
data
and
send
private
messages
.
However
,
connections
were
very
slow
and
long
distance
calls
____________________
very
expensive
.
In
the
1990s
the
Internet
started
to
become
popular
and
social
networking
websites
such
as
Classmates
.
com
and
the
____________________
____________________
Match
.
com
were
created
for
specific
audiences
.
The
modern
____________________
of
social
networking
began
in
2002
,
when
Jonathon
Abrams
launched
Friendster
.
He
wanted
to
create
a
website
like
Match
.
com
,
but
didn't
want
it
to
be
____________________
dating
.
Google
offered
$30
million
to
buy
Friendster
,
which
was
____________________
.
This
____________________
____________________
to
be
a
big
mistake
.
In
2003
,
a
few
employees
of
a
marketing
company
called
Intermix
Media
copied
the
idea
of
Friendster
and
____________________
MySpace
.
MySpace
focused
on
music
and
allowed
users
to
____________________
their
profiles
.
It
had
a
much
cooler
image
than
Friendster
and
quickly
became
more
popular
.
Then
,
in
October
2003
,
a
student
at
Harvard
University
called
Mark
Zuckerberg
____________________
into
the
university
ID
database
and
created
Facemash
,
a
site
that
let
students
compare
ID
photos
.
He
then
created
`The
Facebook'
,
a
social
network
that
started
as
an
exclusive
site
for
students
.
In
2006
,
anyone
with
an
email
address
could
____________________
____________________
.
Two
years
later
,
Facebook
____________________
MySpace
and
became
the
world's
most
popular
social
network
.
