The emergence of social networks has provided a person with many new opportunities. With the help of such services, some find a soul mate, the second - friends, the third - relatives. The social network offers the user a lot of exciting and informative communities, amazing pictures, entertaining applications and a lot of other things. Such services have incorporated several functions that registered participants are happy to use, as evidenced by the daily increase in personal pages on sites.
The most popular social network in the CIS
At the moment, there are many services for communication: Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, My World, Photostrana, however, VKontakte received the most popularity in the CIS countries.
Statistics show that the number of users is increasing every year, which means that the popularity of this social network is constantly growing. So, it was found out that every day users began to spend more time on the project, now it is 2 hours 38 minutes.
According to data for January 2015, VKontakte has 54.6 million users!
Creating a social network "VKontakte"
The moment when they created VKontakte was not revolutionary, since the service is an analogue of foreign Facebook. However, a social network with a Russian interface instantly gained popularity among Russian-speaking users.
When did you create VKontakte? This year was 2006. The founder was Pavel Durov - a graduate of St. Petersburg State University in philology.
From childhood, the guy improved his programming skills and already at the university he created several projects that became popular among students: durov.com (a site for students to exchange educational materials) and spbgu.ru (university forum). Durov tried to add to the forum fields for photos, name, places of study in addition to the main fields for nicknames and avatars.
The idea of creating VKontakte came up after a meeting between Durov and a friend, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, who studied in the United States. He told Paul about the emergence and prosperity of the social network Facebook. So the idea of creating a "VK" was born.
October 1, 2006, the domain name vkontakte.ru was registered, this date is considered to be the day when VKontakte was created. From that moment, much has changed.
When did you create VKontakte?, it was possible to register there only by invitation, since initially the project was positioned as a place for students to communicate and was an application to the spbgu.ru forum. A few months later, it was decided to focus on a wider audience, so free access to registration on the social network was open.
On July 13, 2007, a millionth user was registered on Vkontakte, and a year later the social network totaled fifteen million members. If you take into account the year in which VKontakte was created, the results are impressive. The popularity of the service is now only growing.
Since the creation of VKontakte, the number of participants has grown millions of times in record time. To date, the site is considered the largest in Russia. VKontakte sponsors the Olympic Games in programming and supports a team of professionals from St. Petersburg. The service is also included in the 50 best Internet sites.
Subsidiary projects
After the moment when they created VKontakte, there were a number of attempts to launch several subsidiary projects. Video service "In the frame" was intended for users of the network to watch HD video. The On-State project was created so that users can create resumes and look for work.However, these services did not receive recognition and their activity was stopped.
Criticism from
Since the creation of the VKontakte social network, attacks on Pavel Durov by envious and ill-wishers have not stopped. The creator of the most successful Russian project was accused of plagiarism. Pavel replies that for the development of VK, he only got acquainted with the principles of social networks, taking the well-known Facebook project as an example, and a similar appearance is explained by the use of an open style concept. By the way, not a single charge of copying has been proven.
Today, without the social network VKontakte, many people no longer imagine their lives. After all, one project contained many sites: here you can not only meet new people, but also watch movies, listen to music, play games and much more.
