Many social networking sites were created in the 1990s. Some examples include Six
Degrees, BlackPlanet, Asian Avenue, and MoveOn. These are, or have been, online niche social sites where people can interact, including sites for public policy advocacy and a social network based on a web of contacts model. In addition, blogging services such as Blogger and Epinions were created. Epinions is a site where consumers can read or create reviews of products.ThirdVoice and Napster were two software applications created in the 90s that have since been removed from the market. ThirdVoice was a free plug-in that allowed users to post comments on webpages. Opponents of the software argued that comments were often vulgar or slanderous. Napster was a software application that allowed peer-to-peer file sharing. Users were allowed to
share music files bypassing normal distribution methods, which in the end was determined to be
a violation of copyright laws (Ritholz, 2010).