Social networks are used for discussions,meeting old friends or making new friends so countries and cultures are brought together in one big global village. The first online meeting place by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess in 1978 in Chicago. The city was covered in snow and it was difficult to move about so, in order to contact their friends and colleagues, Christensen and Suess began to work on the 'computerized Bulletin Board System" or It was the first online meeting place!Users could download files or games and post messages to other users.