Social Media By rr23 1985 Wall and GENie General Electric Network for information exchange) It was later made redundant by the World Wide Web. 1986 Listverse 1997 Six Degrees 2001 Wikipedia 2002 Linkedin 2003 Photobucket 2003 MySpace 2004 Facebook 2004 Google begins Gmail 2006 YouTube acquired by Google for $1.65 billion 2007 Hashtag debuts on Twitter 2009 Facebook introduces like button 2010 Instagram 2011 Snapchat 2012 Facebook reaches 1 billion users 2013 MySpace re-launches 2014 Twitter & Instagram hit 400+ million users per month 2018 Instagram launches IGTV