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Six Degrees was created
This was the first social media that was created that became popular. It lets you upload a profile of yourself and add friends, and it was pretty basic. -
100 million people on the internet
By the year 2000, there were 100 million people who had access to the internet. -
Facebook was founded
Mark Zuckerberg launched facebook, which is the most popular social media site to this day. -
Myspace was created
Myspace was the most popular social media from about 2005-2008 until facebook took it over. -
Twitter helps presidential election
People used twitter to help the presidential election and would tweet things about who people should vote for and so on. -
Twitter begins to spread news
People began to use twitter for news and on this date, someone who got a picture of the US airways plane crash in the Hudson River posted it to twitter and that's the first picture a lot of people saw for that situation. -
Everyone on social media
48% of Americans have a profile on some sort of social media website and it continues to grow every single day. -
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Ello becomes popular
Ello was a new released social media and started having 31,000 people join per hour for a couple days. The more people who used it, the more people found out and joined. It's considered an "anti-facebook" -
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Video on social media and mental health
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Facebook is the most popular social media
As of June, 2016, the most recent date, Facebook is the most popular social media site. The 2 following it are Youtube, and Twitter.
