Social Media Rise

  • Yahoo

    Yahoo
    It wascreated by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and it was launched on March 1,1995. It is mainly a helping site, you have a variety of things to check on as:Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers.
  • Ask

    Ask
    It is part of the InterActive Corporation, created in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen. It was most visited by USA as of 2004. Just ask.. there will be over 100 million responces.
  • Hotmail

    Hotmail
    This website was created by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. Later, in 1997, it was bought by Microsoft for about $400 million and the name was changed to MSN Hotmail. Here, you may send emails (texts,pictures,links,videos and attatchments) to other people.
  • Google

    Google
    It was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University and they recieve 16% of the profit. It has growtha lot. It is worldwide and is a site always operationg. You may search anything and it will appear. Google owns things as: GoogleMaps, Blogger,Gmail (etc.) It has grew vastly during these years. Just search!
  • Messenger

    Messenger
    It was first MSN Messenger from 1999-2006. Later, better vesions were comming. By that time, you could only send text messages and have a contact list. The newer versions improved where you could put a status, profile picture, send gift and animated letters on your texts, changing font and color, sending voice mails and videochating.
  • Blogger

    Blogger
    It was created by Pyra Labs,but bought by Google in 2003. Blogger is a site where you create you blog, You may add pictures, color,theames and text to your blog. You may have many blogs and it is open to the world so anyone can see you blog.
  • Word Press

    Word Press
    It is a website about blogging. It was founded by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. It has been downloaded over 65 million times and is the most popular blogging site.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    This social media was created by Mark Zuckerberg and his roomates on Febuary 2004.It is operated by Facebook Inc. This social media grew masive due to its rise in users. Acoring to some results, there are over one billion users. Some people use it to communicte. others to chat and post pictures.
  • Gmail

    Gmail
    It is a free email service by Google. It was created on April 1,2004 and you could only use it if someone invited you. Late on February 7, 2007, it was known to any user. You send emails to other people as well. As of now, Gmail has over 425 million users.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    It was created by Steve Chen,Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were all employers of PenPal on February 2005. This social network was created to post and share videos. There are over 65,000 videos posted each day.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. It has over 500 billion users and 340 million tweets daily. You just tweet a phrase. You are required to post, follow and be followed.
  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    Tumbr was created on April 27,2007 by David Karp. Here, you create a blog and post pictures. You may add theames, links, gifs and music to your blog. You likewise follow other users and they may follow you back. You may also ask questions to people on their blog.