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Early 2000s
After blogging was invented new social media sites arose. MySpace and LinkedIn gained traction in the early 2000s. Social media was more popular than ever before. -
Digg and Flickr
Digg users could now share links to anything online, and vote up or down on content. Digg is kind of the building blocks of Reddit. Flickr became a social network and they host more than 3.6 billion images. -
YouTube
YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site. Anyone that creates an account can upload, comment and like videos. -
Twitter and Facebook
Twitter gained a lot of ground and soon developed a very devoted following as well as a number of famous celebrities and athletes. In the fall, over 1 million users signed up every week. Facebook, today is the 6th most visited site in the US. -
Instagram
Instagram is launched and then later bought by Facebook. After instagram is bought by Facebook it blows up, and is now one of the most popular video and photo sharing site. -
Google+
Google+ became a full-featured social networking tool where people can create video chat rooms for their groups. -
Pheed
A mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service that competed with Facebook and Twitter.
