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It uses the Internet to send text messages, documents, images, video, user location and audio messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers
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Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms.
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Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
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Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting u.s college students. First launched at Harvard college,more than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month
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MySpace is launched, first conceived as a friendster clone. Created by an internet maketing firm.
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Friendster is launched, pioneering the online connection of real-wold friends. With 3 MILLIONS USERS in the first three months.
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Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) is a discontinued instant messaging client developed by Microsoft for Windows
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AOL instant messenger is launcher. Sixdegrees.com launches allowing profile creation and listing friends.
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One of the web's first social netwoking sites, Geocities, is founded
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BBS exchanged data over phone lines with other users.
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The first email is sent. The two computers were sitting right next to eachother.