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Touted at the original social media site, Six Degrees allowed people to make their own profiles, connect with people, and have a friends list. -
The original "rate me 1 out of 10" website. Hot or Not allowed other users to rate themselves, while also offering a matchmaking engine. -
While it was originally supposed to be a dating app, Friendster rose quickly in popularity, which in turn affected its servers.
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Taking the world by storm, Myspace offered public profiles, while having a big influence on pop culture, technology, and music. After 2008, the site would start to see a decline in activity. -
Founded by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, Photobucket was meant to give users the ability to save, edit, and organize their photos. -
A social bookmarking site for storing, finding, and sharing web bookmarks. -
A site specifically made for teens to connect with each other with public profiles, friend lists, and more. -
Focusing more on the business/employment side of social media, LinkedIn still serves as a way for society to connect with others on potential jobs. -
Originally created to publish blogs, it's grown into publishing other web content as a web content management system. -
Created by Mark Zuckerberg, this was essentially the 'original' Facebook, and it was meant to compete with Hot or Not. -
Once titled The Facebook, this social media site brings online interaction, friend lists, and an increased influence that's still felt today.
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An image/video hosting site. Professional photographers often put their photos on here. -
Still being a mainstay in the social media world since its debut, YouTube is a video sharing platform that continues to have a profound influence on the world today. -
A discussion, content rating, and social news site, Reddit allows their users to up/down vote a message.
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During this era, LinkedIn was the first social media site to offer their users premium paid packages.
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Twitter allows their users to make 'Tweets,' which can come in the form of texts, videos, and images. -
With YouTube's growing success, they would soon introduce their partnership program, which serves as the origin for social media influencers.
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Starting on Twitter, the hashtag has helped differentiate tweets, spread awareness, and promote many things throughout the years.
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Tumblr gives their users a way to post multimedia content, along with posting short-form blogs. -
An image sharing service that uses pinboards for the discovery of information. -
Gave users the ability to 'check-in,' while being able to share recommendations about their favorite places. -
The first geosocial networking app, allowing gay/bisexual men to meet/date with each other. -
Created when Facebook and Twitter were banned from China, Weibo acts as a hybrid of the two sites.
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Serving as a photo and video sharing platform, Instagram still remains as one of the most used social media sites in the world.
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A prominent multimedia instant messaging app. Messages on Snapchat can only be viewed for a short amount of time before they go away.
