The History of Social Media

By steviestruhar

  • Google

    Google launched and eventually become the most used search engine.

  • LinkedIn

    Linkedin Launched making it a professional social networking site and business friendly.

  • Myspace

    Myspace was extremely popular in its early years, but slowly become less used when other source networking sites such as Facebook were launched. Myspace was big when computers were used more frequently than mobile devices

  • Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg created a new form of social networking and launched Facebook.

  • YouTube

    YouTube was created to have easy access to videos and clips.

  • Twitter

    The first tweet was sent in 2006. Twitter is a micro-blogging social network that relies on short messages that have to contain only 140 characters. These short messages of Tweets are a very instant way to comment on something either happening in the world.

  • Tumblr

    Tumblr is a blog style social networking site. Tumblr is unique compared to other forms of social networking. It is avid with pictures and videos.

  • Spotify

    Spotify was released and became a huge source for music streaming.

  • Creation of Hashtags

    Hashtags were created on twitter to group discussion topics for people to view.

  • Instagram

    Instagram was created to share photos. Instagram is similar to Twitter, but strictly for sharing pictures and videos.

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat was created for an easy way to send pictures to friends for only 10 seconds. It is a photo and video sharing form of social media.

  • Vine

    Vine enables users to record there own videos that last only 6 seconds.