Since our earliest days of being able to use our computers to access bulletin board systems and chat, users have tended to cluster into communities of others who shared similar interests. In November of 1994, David Bohnett founded GeoCities. David believed that by establishing a virtual community with neighborhood communities named after “highprofile destinations” the new community “could play host to Web users who were looking for a comfortable place to contribute their talents, meet others with similar interests, and create the electronic community of the future. The first six communities were introduced in July 1995”. By 1998, Geo Cities boasted 1.7 million members who had staked out virtual “homesteads” in 40 separate virtual neighborhoods. Since those pioneering days of digital social networking communities, we have seen an explosion of a wide assortment of social communities that target virtually every conceivable area of interest or niche.
There is a new way to increase your marketing and website traffic, MySpace has been around for a few years now and is a great way to advertise your website and business since it gets thousands of hits a day. MySpace has the potential to bring in hundreds of hits a day by running a simple ad. When starting out on MySpace, you need to create a free account or MySpace page. To start, go to MySpace and click signup, fill out your information, then you will be prompted to log into MySpace. Once logged in, you will find out that you have a message from Tom who is the creator of MySpace. After reading his message go to edit profile and create a headline, you will then tell some about yourself or company, you can also talk about who you want to meet, what Interest you have, such as what you like in music, movies, TV, books and who your heroes are.