A Brief History of Social Media

America Online (AOL)

May 1, 1997

America Online (AOL) laumches America Online Instant Messenger (AIM).

Friendster

Mar 1, 2002

Friendster goes live to the U.S. public, grows to 3 million users in three months.

LinkedIn

May 1, 2003

LinkedIn is launched as a professioinal networking site by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant. Reaches 4,500 members in the first month.

Myspace

Aug 1, 2003

Myspace allowed users to customize their profiles and rank their friends.

Facebook

Feb 1, 2004

Facebook starts at Havard College by Mark Zuckerberg. Myspace surpasses Friendster in page views.

The Wold is Connected

Jan 1, 2011

There are now 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets are sent per day and there are 2 billion Youtube views per day.

The World

Jan 1, 2014

74% of online adults use a social networking site.