Ryan's Social Media Timeline

Open Diary

Oct 22, 1998

Open Diary was an online diary community, an early example of social networking software. It was founded on October 22, 1997. Open Diary was shut down on February 7, 2014.

Xanga

Dec 8, 2000

Xanga is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles.

Friendster

Mar 22, 2002

Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously a social networking service website. It is considered one of the original and even the "grandfather" of social networks.

LinkedIn

May 5, 2003

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. It was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

Myspace

Aug 1, 2003

MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Reddit

Jun 23, 2005

Reddit is an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.

Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".

Tumblr

Feb 21, 2007

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.

Pinterest

Mar 1, 2010

Pinterest is a web and mobile application company, which operates an eponymous photo sharing website.

Instagram

Dec 1, 2010

Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.

Google +

Jun 9, 2011

Google+ is an interest-based social network that is owned and operated by Google Inc.

Snapchat

Jul 15, 2011

Snapchat is a video messaging application.

Vine

Apr 4, 2013

Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six second-long looping video clips.