History of Social Media By Alexander_August 1966 Primitive Emails Appear 1983 The "Network of Networks" is Created 1997 Sixdegrees.com Appears, The First True Social Media Site 1998 Activist Social Media Site Moveon.org was introduced 1999 Blogging Appears 2000 Ad Powered Social Media Lunarstorm, an ad powered social media site appears. One of the first of its kind. 2001 Wikipedia is Created 2002 Friendster Appears 2003 Large Appearance of Social Media Platforms LinkedIn, Second Life, MySpace, and Skype appeared in 2003 2004 Harvard Facebook is Launched 2005 Youtube and Reddit are Launched 2006 Twitter and Facebook are Launched for the Public 2007 Tumblr is Launched 2008 Spotify is Launched 2009 Foursquare and Venmo are Launched 2010 Instagram and Pinterest are Launched 2011 Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and Google+ Are all Launched 2012 Tinder is Launched and College Students Everywhere's Lives Were Changed Forever 2013 Vine was Launched 2014 Twitch was Released 2015 Discord was Released to the Public