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Retro social networking sites – or life before Facebook, Insta and TikTok

A well known networking site Facebook was launched on 4 February 2004, but it only started to spread more widely in Hungary in 2009. However, there were two major Hungarian social networks at that time: iWiW and MyVip.

iWiW started more than 20 years ago, on 14 April 2002, initially under the name WiW, which was later changed, but because of the rapid growth of Facebook, iWiW was shut down on 30 June 2014.

MyVip, on the other hand, was only launched on 8 April 2006, but it received a rush of registrations, mainly from young people in Hungary. At the time, the saying among teenagers was „old people have iWiW, MyVip is ours”.

MyVip, seemingly the second fiddle to iWiW, which had millions of users (mostly Hungarian), was given a huge boost by young people (mainly teenagers at the time): on its ninth day after the launch, it had more than 100,000 users and took 225 days to reach its one millionth user.

Here you could join clubs. There were plenty of clubs, even though you could only stay a club owner if you paid money. MyVip currently has over 20,000 active clubs, with the 50 largest clubs having over 25,000 members!

What are the 3 main differences – MyVip or Facebook?

There were three big differences between networking site MyVip and Facebook. The first was that you had to receive an invitation to MyVip from someone, and your profile had this information displayed prominently, who it was from.
The second was that MyVip revealed who had clicked on and viewed your profile in the last 168 hours. The only time you got into trouble was when you wanted to look at someone’s profile in a discreet way, and only when you logged out did you realise that you hadn’t.
Thirdly, if you uploaded pictures to MyVip, a counter showed how many people clicked on them, i.e. looked at them (this hidden feature included spies, too). This view count was as important in the lives of teenagers 12-15 years ago as likes are to teenagers now.

Young crowd with phones on a festival – photo: unsplash.com

MyVip today

Then, in 2009, Facebook started to spread rapidly among the Hungarian people too, with young users using the two sites in half and half for a short while, but then they switched completely. Many people deleted their MyVip accounts.

In contrast to iWiW, MyVip is still in operation today. It can be interesting for today’s generation of twenty to thirty looking back at their profiles back then, for example, who their friends were. And for youngsters, it might be interesting to look at the profiles and pictures of people they know who were teenagers 10-15 years ago, surprises are guaranteed.

Want to know more about this „retro” site?
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyVIP

Main image – photo credit: unsplash.com

Tips to learn from the best teacher

First steps

You can enroll in three types of courses at a Hungarian university.

  • core course
  • required course and
  • elective course.

For all three types, it is worth enquiring in advance which teacher’s course you should take. For core courses ask someone who has been studying the same major as you. It occures especially for courses at the first semester that they are being tought at several majors at the same time, but still it’s better to make sure.

Turn to your mentor!

If you’ve been to a freshman camp or an immersion week, then firstly it’s a good choice to turn to your mentor you met there. Even if you’re not studying the same major, he or she must have heard something of the teacher, or may know someone whom you could be referred to.  

Ask students with more experience!

Is there a more credible source than students who have spent at least one semester in the classes of the tutor in question? Where can you find them? 

Key of the solution is the often mentioned Facebook groups. There must be a group of same major students or of all students, which has a lot of members regardless of major or year of study. All you need to do is post a question: „Could you share some experiences on class Y of teacher X, please” or „Could anyone say a few words of Mrs., Mr., Ms. XY, please?”. The answer will sure be there within an hour.

Head to Markmyprofessor!

Not only teachers can rate students’ performance on a five-point scale, but vice versa. Markmyprofessor is a website developed in Hungary and on this site students can rate teachers in higher education. It’s very simple to use: type the teacher’s name into the search bar, then see the score of the particular teacher and then you may scrutinize the comments as well. 

Important though: anyone can rate anyone on Markmyprofessor, the system does not cross-check it whether the person providing information has been taught by the particular teacher, or not.

Listen to your heart!

Remember, no two people on earth are alike! It’s up to each individual what presentation and teaching style he or she likes. 

Weigh in your information you collected and then ask yourself: is the teacher they’ve recommended the right one for me? The decision and the responsibility are yours only.

As in all aspects of life, you will become more and more experienced in this regard as time passing by. However, don’t be discouraged, the world will not fall apart, if you don’t manage to enroll to the course of the teacher you had your eyes on. You could always try next semester again.

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