Fill in the Blanks Social NetworksOnline version Complete the text with words on the right by Jakub Kepinski 1 hacked sign launched rejected dating up connect real were overtook turned date back age site allowed out customize about 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 .
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