Social media

Friendster

2002

Friendster was a U.S. social networking site based in Mountain View, CA, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Abrams. Unfortunately the company was sold in 2015 and became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

LinkedIn

2003

An American business network and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. This app serves to help create a professional profile for potential employers while you search for jobs.

Skype

2003

Skype is a telecommunications application that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet.

MySpace

Aug 1, 2003

By giving each user their own profile Myspace gives the opportunity for users to blog, chat, post photos/videos, and showcase talents. It was the largest network from 2005 until 2008

Facebook

2004

Starting out mainly as a networking for college students Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. This platform gives people the power to connect and build a bigger community today by posting anything from statuses to items they want to sell in the marketplace

Reddit

2005

Registered members are able to use this platform to submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members.

YouTube

2005

This video sharing website gives users the chance to watch and upload daily videos. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005

Twitter

2006

Micro blogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Pinterest

2010

Focused around helping users "pin" their interest by creating boards specific to content they like. This platform gives users full powers to see content they only like while also being able to discover new things such as fashion, recipes and home design

Instagram

2010

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.

Snapchat

2011

social media platform based for tablets and phones giving the users ability to send pictures and videos back and forth to friends while earning best friends

Tinder

2012

Tinder is a location and age range based most often used as a dating service, that allows users to use a swiping motion to like or dislike other users, and allows users to chat if both parties like each other.