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Six Degrees Social Media Site Launch
The first social media platform, Six Degrees was created. Six Degrees allowed users to create profiles, add interests, and connect with friends. It was similar to Facebook.
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LiveJournal Blogging Site Launch
One of the earliest blogging platforms launched called Livejournal. Today, it is still operational despite its low coverage. It operates as a platform where people exchange thoughts, ideas, and experiences.
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Am I Hot or Not Rating Site Launch
The website AmIHotorNot.com originally was created to allow users to submit their photos to a vote amongst other users, rating their attractiveness. Currently, it is still active. After a rebrand, it is now named Chat & Date and now serves as a dating website.
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Six Degrees Shut Down
The social media Platform, Six Degrees, shut down. The platform failed to take off as people did not understand social media quite yet. I would also accredit this to poor marketing as well.
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Friendster Online Dating Launch
Friendster, one of the first online dating sites of the new decade launched. However, the site blew up and servers failed to keep up with the online traffic. Due to this, the company eventually fell off.
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Myspace is Founded
Myspace was regarded as the first social media site for many people. Myspace was an online social networking platform where users can create web pages and communicate with people and share photos, music etc.
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Facebook Launch
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking apps today. Created by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook grew in popularity quickly by sharing content through texts status posts, photos, videos and more.
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YouTube is Born
YouTube is used to post videos for others to view. The simplicity of the app is one of the reasons why it has exploded over the years. It makes it easy for the content
creators to post for their audiences.
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Twitter Launched
Twitter allows you to connect with users and can share your thoughts with your followers and is an outlet for news, entertainment and business. Elon Musk bought twitter in 2022 for $44 billion and rebranded twitter to “X”
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Tumblr Launch
Tumblr is a microblogging social networking app where users can blog about their ideas and interests with texts, photos, quotes, links, music and videos. Used to bring people with similar interests together. Tumblr has had a steady decline but still generates over 200 million website visits worldwide.
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Myspace Decline
Facebook officially surpassed Myspace with the most unique users on the platform causing the decline of the Myspace website.
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Instagram Launched
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking platform. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.
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Snapchat Launched
Snapchat is a multimedia instant messaging app that allows end users to share pictures and messages that are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.
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Vine Video Hosting Launched
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share 6-second-long looping video clips. Videos published on Vine's social network could also be shared on different social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Vine Sold to Twitter
Vine was acquired by Twitter and re-launched as a free app for all devices throughout 2013.
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Musical.ly Launched
Musical.ly is a lip-syncing and video-based social media platform that allowed users to share and view short video clips from 15 seconds to one minute long. It was headquartered in Shanghai, China and shutdown in 2018.
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Periscope Launched
Periscope is a mobile app letting users broadcast their selves live to others. The app is like Meerkat and YouNow, two livestreaming competitors. It was later acquired by Twitter.
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Triller Launched
Triller is a video editing app converted into a social networking service by allowing users to follow each other and share their videos publicly.
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TikTok Launched
TikTok is an app that allows you to create short videos for sharing. It is a social media service designed for creating, editing, and sharing between 15 second and three minute in length videos. TikTok provides filters, special effects, and sounds for users to add to their videos.
Jay Ellington