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Linkedin was launched in late 2002. The founders were Reid Hoffman and a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal. Source: https://ourstory.linkedin.com/
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Myspace is a social networking website where we can interact with our friends and family. It started to die out after 2009.
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Skype is used for users to make video and voice calls to each other, users can also text as well. Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.
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Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg when he was a student at Harvard. The site became an instant hit with the school then with other Ivy Leagues. Facebook has become the top social media in the world now with billions of users.
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YouTube was created by three former Paypal employees- Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube has continued to grow since they were released. It allows the user to subscribe to other users as well as watch videos and comment on them.
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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. You are able to post links, text, and image and users can like it or dislike it. Their service is worldwide and its rank number 6.
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Twitter is an American online news and social networking. Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams are the ones we created Twitter.
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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp. This is a site for users to have short blogs of themselves. They have about 555 million users monthly.
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9gag is a Hong Kong-based online social media website. It has a collection of memes for users to enjoy. It was co-founded by 5 students from Hong Kong University.
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Foursquare is a local search-and-discovery service mobile app. Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai are both founders. This app allows the user to found locations nearby when they turn on the current location. The app with offered choices of different places.
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Instagram is a picture and video sharing app that is now owned by Facebook. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Users are able to chat with other users and unload pictures and short videos.
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Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app it was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. They were former students at Stanford University. Nowadays Snapchat has about 187 million users.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
