Social Media

MSN/ Windows Live Messenger Service

1999

MSN was used as an instant messaging service between people and as technology developed it could also be used as a video chat service.

Friendster

2002

Friendster allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.

LinkedIn

2002

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented social networking service it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.

Wordpress

2003

WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.

MySpace

2003

Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It essentially was very similar to Facebook.

Skype

2003

Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video, it also allows video conference calls.

Facebook

2004

Users can add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and digital photos, share digital videos and links, use various software applications ("apps"), and receive notifications when others update their profiles or make posts.

Bebo

2005

"Blog Early, Blog Often" Users received a personal profile page where they would post blogs, photographs, music, videos, and questionnaires, which other users may answer. Additionally, users could add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

YouTube

2005

YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favourites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users.

Twitter

2006

Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters.

Tumblr

2007

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website allowing users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs.

Strava

2009

Known as the "Social Network for Athletes" is used to track athletic activity via GPS. Athletes can "follow" each other and activities are automatically grouped together when they occur at the same time and place (for example, taking part in an organised marathon/sportive or group run/ride). Athletes can give "Kudos" (similar to a Facebook Like) and comment on each others' activities, and upload photos to activities.

Instagram

2010

Instagram lets registered users upload photos or videos to the service. Users can apply various digital filters to their images, and add locations through geotags. They can add hashtags to their posts, linking the photos up to other content on Instagram featuring the same subject or overall topic.

Pinterest

2010

Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pinboards

Snapchat

2011

Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application one of the principal concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible.

Vine

2013

Vine is a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips.