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ICQ is released by the Israeli company Mirabilis
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Bolt.com was started as the first social networking and video website
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Social networking website SixDegrees.com is created.[ -
AOL Instant Messenger is released. -
Open Diary launches the first social blogging network, inventing the reader comment and friends-only content.
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Yahoo! Messenger, another popular instant messaging service, launches. -
MSN Messenger (also known as Windows Live Messenger), a popular messaging, video and voice calling service, launches
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LiveJournal, an early blogging platform and social network launches. -
Habbo, a game-based social networking site, launches.
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Friends Reunited exploiting a gap in the UK market following the success of US website Classmates.com
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Windows Messenger is released, and is shipped with Windows XP. This is an integrated version of MSN Messenger.
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Social networking and gaming site Friendster launches. The service would be popular in Asia and the Pacific Islands -
Business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn launches.[ -
Skype, a very popular instant messaging and video/voice calling service (VoIP), launches. -
Facebook, the most popular social networking service to-date, launches. It now features a voice and video calling service, as well as a widely used instant messaging service
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Tagged, a social discovery website, launches. -
Reddit, an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website, launches -
Yahoo! acquires Flickr. -
Twitter, one of the most popular social networking sites worldwide, launches. This website was very popular in Brazil and India. -
Facebook launches News Feed. The original news feed is an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends
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Tumblr, a popular microblogging and social networking website, launches. -
FriendFeed, a real-time social media feed aggregator, launches. -
AOL buys Bebo for $850 million -
Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, launches
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Pinterest, a photo-sharing website, launches. This service allows users to submit images or "pins", then other users can "pin" them on personalized "pinboards". Users can then comment on each other's content and interact with it. -
Instagram, a photo/video sharing and social media service, launches.
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Instagram, a photo/video sharing and social media service, launches. -
Google+, a social networking service, launches.
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Google+, a social networking service, launches.
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Vine, a widely popular video sharing and social media service, launches shortly after being acquired by Twitter for $30 million
