The History of Social Media 2000's - Present

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  • My Space and Linkedin were developed

    My Space and Linkedin were developed
    LInkedin: an employment online service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

  • Wikipedia was started

    Wikipedia was started
    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world.

  • Friendster was started

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

  • My Space was started

    My Space was started
    My Space is an American social networking service that became popular around 2003.

  • Flickr and Digg began

    Flickr and Digg began
    Flickr: American image hosting and video hosting service and an online community. It was founded in Canada
    Digg: an American news site for internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues

  • YouTube was developed

    YouTube was developed
    YouTube is an American video sharing and social media platform that was started by Google.

  • Twitter and Facebook became popular

    Twitter and Facebook became popular
    Twitter and Facebook are both online communication sites that are used to share pictures and information.

  • Tumblr and friendfeed started

    Tumblr and friendfeed started
    Tumblr: an American microblogging and social networking website.
    Friendfeed: a real-time feed aggregator that consolidated updates from social media and social networking websites.

  • Spotify, Ping and Groupon began

    Spotify, Ping and Groupon began
    Spotify is a music site.
    Ping measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer that are echoed back to the source.
    Groupon provide discounts for local business.

  • Foursquare

    Foursquare
    A location based social networking site

  • Pinterest and Instagram were started

    Pinterest and Instagram were started
    Pinterest: an image sharing service designed to allow saving and discovery of information on the internet using images.
    Instagram: American photo and video sharing social networking service.

  • Google +

    Google +
    Google+: is a social network owned and operated by Google.

  • pheed

    pheed
    Pheed: a mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service that was in competition with Facebook and Twitter.

  • Vine

    Vine
    Vine: American social networking video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips.