Important Social-Media Events In History

Classmates.com Launched

Jan 1, 1995

It was started to help users find classmates and colleagues from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, workplaces, and the U.S. military. The site is more popular with older users. Classmates.com has a free and paid version.

AOL Instant Messenger

May 1, 1997

aim.comAIM is an instant messaging site that allows registered users to communicate in real time.

Friendster is Launched

Mar 22, 2002

Friendster.comFriendster was created in 2002 by Peter Chin, Jonathan Abrams and Dave Lee. It was created as a way for a people to meet new friends on the Internet, keep in contact with already existing friends and to expand personal networks in a safe manner. It is considered the grandfather of social networks. In 2011, Friendster was rebranded as a social gaming site. It is widely popular in Asian countries.

LinkedIn is launched

May 1, 2003

linkedin.comLinkedIn is different from many other social media sites becuase its aimed at professionals. It's aim is to connect professionals, share resumes, and grow users professional networks and contacts.

Myspace Launched

Sep 1, 2003

Myspace.comRise and Fall of MyspaceMyspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis.

Facebook is Launched

Feb 4, 2004

facebook.comOne of the biggest social media sites was orginially launched for Harvard students only. It then expanded to invite other ivy league schools, to all universities and colleges, to highschool students, and now anyone who claims to be over the age of 13.

Twitter is launched

Mar 21, 2006

twitter.com Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. With twitter came trending topics

Tumblr launch

Feb 1, 2007

tumblr.com
Tumblr is a website where users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. The site uses a dashboard interface.

Instagram launched

Oct 1, 2010

instagram.com 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+ is launched

Jun 1, 2011

google+Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.