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The start of Social Media dawns with the Modern Age of Technology and untimately, the internet.
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The first widely used form of online communication was in the form of the electronic mail system.
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Myspace is first created and introduced to the internet, though is not yet popular.
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LinkedIn users can now network professionally online
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Though not yet comercially available or popular, the first of Facebook is available on the internet.
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One of the first social media platforms as they are recognized today, Myspace was heralded as the most visited social networking for many years.
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Users can post videos that anyone can view.
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The early days of Reddit have begun.
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So starts the age of short bursts of messages 140 characters long or less.
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Being purchased by google and made person of the year in Time magazine, Youtube rises in the ranks of popular media sharing sites
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Within two weeks, Tumblr had 75,000 users.
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Facebook takes over as the most popular social media platform on the web, being ranked number one by Complete.com
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Twitter becomes the third highest ranking social networking site
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However, was originally only available to a small audience.
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Users could share photos with their followers with this simple to use app
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Users could now send images that would delete themselves after mere moments.
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Users could log in to this app and anonymously post tweet-like bursts of media that could then be voted on by other users
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The phenomenon of short bursts of media takes shape with this app, which was created by Twitter. Following the same theme of limiting the amount users can post at any one time, this video sharing app limited the amount of time any video could be to only five seconds, forcing users to get creative when creating media to only include the bare essentials to create a story.
