GHANA TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

CAMPUS BASED SOCIAL

NETWORK
(Student Based)

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 INTRODUCTION
 Networking in the form of online social networks is second nature
for college students and aspiring young professionals today.

 The main purpose of creating Social Networking Site for College

Students is for meeting nationwide college students and sharing
knowledge, education related information’s, etc.

 It contains standard social network content, like profiles, pictures,

email and groups, and video sharing, articles, etc. Student can
create a profile, browse locations nationwide, share and collect
knowledge, education related tutorials, etc.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY
History of Social Media: Then and Now

The roots of social media stretch far deeper

than you might imagine. Although it seems
like a new trend, sites like Facebook are the
natural outcome of many centuries of social
media development.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY (CONT’D)
Social Media Before 1900

In 1792, the telegraph was invented. This

allowed messages to be delivered over a long
distance far faster than a horse and rider could
carry them. Although telegraph messages were
short, they were a revolutionary way to convey
news and information.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY (CONT’D)
Two important discoveries happened in the
last decade of the 1800s: The telephone in
1890 and the radio in 1891.
Both technologies are still in use today, although the
modern versions are much more sophisticated than
their predecessors. Telephone lines and radio signals
enabled people to communicate across great distances
instantaneously, something that mankind had never
experienced before.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY (CONT’D)
Social Media in the 20th Century

Technology began to change very rapidly in

the 20th Century. After the first super
computers were created in the 1940s, scientists
and engineers began to develop ways to create
networks between those computers, and this
would later lead to the birth of the Internet.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY (CONT’D)
The first recognizable social media site, Six
Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users
to upload a profile and make friends with other
users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became
popular, creating a social media sensation
that’s still popular today.

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 BACKGROUND STUDY (CONT’D)
Social Media Today
 After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode
in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained
prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and
Flickr facilitated online photo sharing. YouTube came out in
2005

 By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users

throughout the world. These sites remain some of the most
popular social networks on the Internet

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT
So far there is still need of efficient social networking
website for college student especially Ghana
technology university.

There is low level of socialization in Gtuc

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT (CONT’D)
In this social networking management system
project online world where everyone wants to
connect, so that social networking
management system project one can better
coordinate with other any make work easy
with enjoyment and full of joy

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 OBJECTIVES
 The project’s objective is to enable users to communicate with
other people in the school.

 It allows the user to search for friends in the school especially

new ones.

 It allows the user to search for friends in the school especially

new ones.

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 OBJECTIVES (CONT’D)
 Help maintain existing relationships with people

 To have attractive and Secure Login page to access

 Chat with Online friends

 Ease of editing of profile anytime

 Ease of editing of profile anytime

 Easily password recovery processing

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 OBJECTIVES (CONT’D)
 Make new user account in more user friendly and proper
validation of details

 Search People easily on entire network

 Send Friend Request to other users to make friends

 Add friends to your friend box accept request

 Creating a public profile having social, professional and

personal information

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 OBJECTIVES (CONT’D)
Upload and Share Images on network

Add, Search and shares videos of YouTube

Send messages to other friends

Reply directly to incoming user messages

Post Advertisement of products

Administration page to keep eye on user operation

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 RELATED WORK 1 (TAGGED)
 Tagged is a different site that allows you to easily discover new friends
based on interests. On Tagged you'll create your own profile and browse
other profiles based on their interests. Tagged boasts over 200 million users
with nearly 20 million unique monthly visits.
 Once you start your free account on Tagged you can customise your profile
and build your biography with information that helps the site find other
users with similar interests. Your Tagged page allows you to upload
photos, receive messages, send virtual gifts, and much more.
 The social games on Tagged have a nice spin on them in that they are part
of the discovery process. Players are often encouraged to make new friends
through playing games. Tagged has its own in-house game development
team, which means that the games on Tagged are unique.

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 RELATED WORK 1 (TAGGED)

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 RELATED WORK 2 (LINKEDIN)

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 RELATED WORK 2 (LINKEDIN)
 LinkedIn is a site that focuses on creating profiles for professionals. It is a
great social networking website to build business and employment
relations, featuring over 170 million registered users in over 190 countries.
 LinkedIn is now ahead of MySpace in terms of traffic, making it one of the
most popular social networking sites around. The main focus is to allow
users to easily track people that they have a relationship with (known as
connections). Connections can be used to meet others people, through
introductions. Your profile can include your resume, display your industry
connections, and help you to follow up job openings as they become
available.
 If you are looking to create a more professional social profile, then
LinkedIn will have you covered.

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 Hardware Specifications:

 Processor Name: Dual Core

 Processor Speed: 1.2 GHz

 RAM: 1 GB

 Hard Disk Capacity: 80 GB

 Display Device: 14’ to 19’ InchMonitor

 Keyboard Type: PS2 or USB

 Mouse Type: PS2 or USB

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 Software Requirement

For Website:

Technology Implemented: Apache Server

Language Used: PHP

Database: My SQL

User Interface Design: HTML, BOOTSTRAP

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 SCOPE OF STUDY
 The website “students based” will be used to connect the
people in very easy, simple and efficient way and one can
share their feeling, information, ideas and many more.

 The social network can help you maintain existing

relationships with people and share pictures and messages, and
establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met
before on campus.

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 SCOPE OF STUDY (CONT’D)

This website also provides the features of

blogging all at one place. The main idea
behind blogging is to share your thoughts with
all your friends which can be read by all the
users using the website

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 LIMITATION
One limitation of the project is since it is
online based ,internet connection is required.

Constraints of time and resources are the

factors, which will hinder the implementation
of this system.

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 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
Viewing critically the inefficiencies in the social
life of student relationship presently in GTUC,
so there was the need to develop and implement
online social network website that will handle
such inefficiencies i.e. reduce Anti-socialism

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 CONCLUSION
The success of this system is dependent on its usage.

The system will help facilitate and improve the social

life of students in Ghana Technology University.

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