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Founded by Andrew Weinreich, people were able to setup profile page, create list of connections, and send messages within the links
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Had users submit photos to rate their attractiveness, gave a lot of people insecurities and sparked inspirations to creators of Facebook and YouTube. Revived into a "game" by 2014 by the creators
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Originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Able to create a profile, include “status updates” and reveal your mood. Messaging “friends of friends of friends” was also a thing.
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Friendster's rival, created for hip teens to customize their profiles however they wanted, even if it was inappropriate it was visible to everyone.
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Used to be known as Myspace for adults, first to offer premium packages. Has areas for users to connect beyond jobs and networking from companies
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originally the answer to Hot or Not, started off as two different things, became just the facebook in 2005 purchased for 200,000
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Acquired google, partnership program, provides platform and creators provide the content. Advertisement help pay the creator as well as subscribers
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able to tweet, others can see what your thinking or what your doing based on your tweets.
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microblogging. started in a room, able to reblog, and post small sentences or inspirations
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Micro blogging with a twitter and Facebook hybrid, still most popular site in china with 340 million monthly subscribers
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first geosocial networking app for dating geared towards gay and bisexual men, helping them meet other men nearby.
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was once called “digital crack for women” and gave women’s lifestyle magazines and blogs a new look. home, arts and crafts, and fashion are the most popular categories on Pinterest.
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able to create post, captions, bios, with anything you want to be on there for whoever to see and can be private or public accounts attached to more than one
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began with an invitation-only system in 2011. That summer, new users got access to 150 invitations they could send out before the site’s official opening in September. Demand was so high that Google eventually had to suspend them.
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Proclaimed 2014 as the “Year of the Selfie” after Ellen DeGeneres’s Oscar photo. Selfie has been retweeted more than three million times—setting a Twitter record and winning Twitter’s award for “Golden tweet” of the year. A period of when selfies were the thing and if it wasn't a selfie it wasn't important
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became everyone’s favorite app for streaming and watching live events. Getting plenty of “hearts” anytime you hit the record button was all the incentive anyone needed to try it out. Apple awarded the app the iOS app of the year in 2015.
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social media used to spread disinformation, including false claims and conspiracy theories during the U.S. presidential election. journalists, pundits and politicians—even Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump—were found to be spreading content that bots had shared online.
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Able to start recording live to let users se what people are doing at anytime.
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In an effort to attract more users, Twitter doubled its character limit from 140 to 280 characters. The move was widely accepted by majority
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the company increased its one-minute video limit to one-hour and launched a whole new app, IGTV, dedicated to long-form video.